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Bartlett was the Chair of Experimental Psychology at Cambridge when he published the book he is most famously recognised for: Remembering (1932). The book explored Bartlett's concept of conventionalization [ 9 ] in psychology. [ 6 ]
Bartlett's pioneering book, Remembering describes a series of studies of transmission of various material, from Native American folk tales to descriptions of sporting events. From these he made two major inferences, corroborated by later studies: loss of the detail and dependence of the quality of remembering on the pre-existing knowledge.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, often simply called Bartlett's, is an American reference work that is the longest-lived and most widely distributed collection of quotations. The book was first issued in 1855 and is currently in its 19th edition, published in 2022.
Bartlett was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, to William Bartlett and Susan Thacher. [1]His father was a descendant of Mayflower Pilgrims, including Love Brewster, a founder of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, William Brewster, the Pilgrim colonist leader and spiritual elder of the Plymouth Colony, and John Alden, who was a cooper in Southampton, England, and who along with the Brewsters was a ...
William Henry Bartlett (26 March 1809 – 13 September 1854) was a British artist, best known for his numerous drawings rendered into steel engravings. Biography [ edit ]
The encyclopedia was expanded to 10 volumes in 1924 and 15 in 1932. In 1940 the title was expanded to Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia and Fact Index to emphasize its "Fact-Index" feature which combined a general index with dictionary type entries and tables. The general editor from 1922 to 1961 was Guy Stanton Ford.
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. The two most popular books that year were The Fountain , by Charles Langbridge Morgan , which held on top of the list for 10 weeks, and Mary's Neck by Booth Tarkington , which was on top of the list for 7 weeks.
The first performance was on 1 November 1932 in the West End of London, at the Globe Theatre (later renamed the Gielgud Theatre). [1] The cast was: Leonard Ardsley – C. V. France; Charlotte Ardsley – Louise Hampton; Sydney – Cedric Hardwicke; Eva – Flora Robson; Lois – Marjorie Mars; Ethel Bartlett – Diana Hamilton; Howard Bartlett ...