Record Number: 30616

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Meeting held at 67 Eastern Avenue, 28th. Nov. 1945.
A. Austin Miller in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.

[...]

3. While we were discussing possible books for the coming year, the Treasurer was dispatched to fetch from his home the Club account books in order that we might be able to review our finances. He was later able to assure us that we have a balance in hand of about £7.

[...]

7. X = 0 by John Drinkwater was read with the following cast: —
Pronax — F. E. Pollard
Salvius — A B Dilks
Ilus — T. Hopkins
Capys — Austin Miller
Stage directions, passing sentinels & noises off — Hilda Hopkins

We then had three readings each of a national character. For the first of these representing England Dora Langford read from “Nicholas Married” a sequel to Nicholas Nickleby of doubtful authorship. Both the age of the book and its illustrations were extremely interesting. Scotland was represented by an extract from ‘A Window in Thrums’ by J. M. Barrie read by Muriel Stevens. And Wales by readings by Stella Hopkins from “An Englishman looks at Wales by R. W. Thompson”
[signed as a true record by] C.J. Langford [on 10 January 1946, at the club meeting held at 44 Hamilton Rd.: see Minute Book, p. 48.]

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Century:

1900-1945

Date:

28 Nov 1945

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

city: Reading
county: Berkshire
specific address: 67, Eastern 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:

Bruce Dilks

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1904

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:

John Drinkwater

Title:

X = 0: A Night of the Trojan War

Genre:

Drama, Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

30616

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Margaret Dilks

Title:

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

Location:

private collection

Call No:

n/a

Page/Folio:

44–47

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, 44–47, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=30616, 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).