Record Number: 29989

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue: 25.3.36
    Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved.

[...]

6. Charles Stansfield read us one or two extracts from Halliday Sutherland’s “Arches of the Years”. [...]

7. Rosamund Wallis followed with Norah Warne’s [i.e Nora Waln’s] “House of Exile”, giving us a telling description of an aristocratic Chinese household[...].

8. F. E. Pollard then gave us a picture of the personality and work of Russell Pasha from “The last plague of Egypt” — the drug traffic.

9. R. H. Robson gave us a reading from “The Anglo Saxons”, the very recent work of R. H. Hodgkin of Queen’s College, Oxford, a Leightonian of the first generation. [Many of the XII Book Club members were associated with Leighton Park School.]

10. Finally Ethel Stevens read two or three picturesque passages from Duveen’s Collections and Recollections.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

25 Mar 1936

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

city: Reading
county: Berkshire
specific address: Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Rosamund Wallis

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

Quaker or associated with the Friends

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

Members of the XII Book Club

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Nora Waln

Title:

The House of Exile

Genre:

Autobiog / Diary, Geography / Travel, Reminiscences, China

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Probably London: Cresset Press, 1933; or their cheap edition of 1934

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

29989

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Victor Alexander

Title:

XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 3 (1931-1938)

Location:

private collection

Call No:

n/a

Page/Folio:

160–165

Additional Information:

Victor Alexander was secretary to the XII Book Club from 1931 to 1940. It is inferred from this that he was the author of this set of minutes.

Citation:

Victor Alexander, XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 3 (1931-1938), private collection, 160–165, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=29989, accessed: 03 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

Material by kind permission of the XII Book Club. For further information and permission to quote this source, contact the Reading Experience Database (http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/contacts.php).