Record Number: 30040

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Meeting held at Oakdene 22. II 1937
Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read (by F.E.P. in regretted absence of the Secretary) & approved.
[...]
4. Howard R. Smith introduced Browning with a biographical sketch.
5. F. E. Pollard read The Italian in England.
6. S. A. Reynolds read a paper by H. M. Wallis on ‘The Bishop orders his Tomb’; & Rosamund Wallis read the poem.
7. F. E. Pollard commented on various aspects of Browning’s works, & at intervals the following were read:-
‘The Patriot’ by E. B. Castle. Parts of ‘By the fireside’ & ‘Holy Cross Day’ by R. H. Robson. Part of ‘Rabbi ben Ezra’, by C. E. Stansfield.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Until: 22 Feb 1937

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Francis E. Pollard

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1872

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Formerly schoolmaster, now occasional lecturer and supply teacher, and supported also by wife's unearned income

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Robert Browning

Title:

[Various unidentified works]

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

30040

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Francis E. Pollard

Title:

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

Location:

private collection

Call No:

n/a

Page/Folio:

183–4

Additional Information:

Francis E Pollard, who read the minutes of the last meeting, appears to have been acting as Secretary in the absence of Victor Alexander. It is deduced from this, that he was the author of this set of minutes.

Citation:

Francis E. Pollard, XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 3 (1931-1938), private collection, 183–4, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=30040, accessed: 01 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

Reading in preparation for a paper delivered at the XII Book Club on 22 Feb 1937.
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).