[Ads-l] Gaslighting

[James Landau]

A reference on "Gaslighting" that might possibly be useful:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_Light[footnote 44]  Yagoda, Ben (12 January 2017). "HowOld Is 'Gaslighting'?". The Chronicle of Higher Education.Retrieved 2 June 2017.
Also considering the 15-year span between the source of the term (the 1938 play) and the 1953 first usage (see yesterday's ADS-L list) we have an illustration of the delay between the original reference and the first time it has been found as an appearance in print (well, television).  In this case we have an exact date for the usage (the play title) and our first detected appearance in public.
James Landau
jjjrlandau at netscape.com

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