Record Number: 30571

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
    F. E. Pollard in the chair.

[...]

5. Alice Joselin introduced the subject of the evening with a biographical study of the Brontë family. Contrary to her expressed idea that she could do little more than recite a list of dates, Alice Joselin drew for us a vivid picture of the life at Haworth Rectory and the way in which the three sisters took the literary world by storm.

[...]'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Until: 25 Apr 1945

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Reading
county: Berkshire

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:

Alice Joselin

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

unknown

Title:

[biographical texts on the Brontë family]

Genre:

Biography

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

30571

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Margaret Dilks

Title:

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

Location:

private collection

Call No:

n/a

Page/Folio:

32–34

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, 32–34, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=30571, accessed: 03 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

This refers to the reading done in preparing the essay described in the evidence.

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).