1. For example, Mass Observation, File Report 2537, November 1947, ‘Reading in Tottenham’ (repr. Brighton: Harvester Press Microform Publications, 1983), p. 4.
2. Chris Baldick, The Oxford English Literary History, Vol. 10, 1910–40: The Modern Movement (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 18.
3. Francis Williams, Dangerous Estate: The Anatomy of Newspapers (1957; London: Longmans, Green, 1958), pp. 1–2. See also Royal Commission on the Press 1974–77, Final Report (London: HMSO, 1977), Cmd. 6810, Appendix C, 105.
4. Q. D. Leavis, Fiction and the Reading Public (1932; London: Chatto & Windus, 1965), p. 117.
5. Virginia Berridge, ‘Popular Sunday papers and mid-Victorian society’, in Newspaper History from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day, ed. George Boyce, James Curran and Pauline Wingate (London: Constable, 1978), pp. 247–64.