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Record 29700

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd., 20.XII.33.
E. Dorothy Brain in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved

[...]

7. Schoolmasters in Literature were portrayed by a series of readings from biography and fiction. There were ten in all and they reflected the various estimation in which these beings are held, and were held generations ago. In spite of the dullness, the jealousy and the morbid introspection that characterize the assistant, the profession is in part redeemed by the haloes that flicker around its heads - generally, it must be admitted, very much in retrospect.

After all, would other professions fare much better?

We are certainly indebted to the committee who prepared the readings, and regret that Reginald Robson felt it necessary to omit the one he had allotted to himself.

The readings were given in this order.
1. From Roger Ascham    V. W. Alexander
2. [From] Westward Ho    H. R. Smith
3. [From] Essays of Elia    Janet Rawlings
4. [From] T. E. Brown's Clifton    Celia Burrow
6. [From] Stalky & Co    G. H. S. Burrow
5. [From] Life of Frederick Andrews    Mary Robson
7. [From] Vanity Fair    S. A. Reynolds
8. [From] Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill    Dorothy Brain
9. [From] Jeremy at Crale    E. B. Castle
10. [From] Rugby Chapel    F. E. Pollard
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Century: 1900-1945
Date: 20 Dec 1933
Country: England
Time: evening
Place: city: Reading
county: Berkshire
specific address: Eynsham, Shinfield Road
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Victor Alexander
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1887
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, workmates)
Members of the XII Book Club
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Roger Ascham
Title: n/a
Genre: Education
Form of Text: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 29700  
  Source - Manuscript
  Author: Victor Alexander
  Title: XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 3 (1931-1938)
  Location: private collection
  Call no: n/a
  Page/folio: 80–83

Citation: Victor Alexander, XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 3 (1931-1938) private collection, p. 80–83, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=29700, accessed: 18 May 2013

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). The text read was perhaps from The Scholemaster.

 

 

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