Record Number: 30472

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, 21st June 1944
F. E. Pollard in the chair.

[...]

10. It was too late to hear the readings from Chesterton’s biography of Charles Dickens, and it was suggested that this might well prove an interesting subject for a future evening.

[signed as a true record by] Howard R. Smith 8/7/44

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Until: 21 Jun 1944

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Reading
county: Berkshire
specific address

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:

[unnamed member[s] of the XII Book Club]

Age:

Unknown

Gender:

Unknown

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

G. K. Chesterton

Title:

Charles Dickens

Genre:

Biography

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

30472

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Margaret Dilks

Title:

XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 5 (1944-1952)

Location:

private collection

Call No:

n/a

Page/Folio:

10-11

Additional Information:

Margaret Dilks was secretary to the XII Book Club from 1940 to 1970. It is inferred from this, and from the handwriting, that she was the author of this set of minutes.

Citation:

Margaret Dilks, XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 5 (1944-1952), private collection, 10-11, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=30472, accessed: 02 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

The reading[s] of the work in preparation for reading it to the meeting — although in the event the latter readings did not take place.

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).