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Record Number: 29829

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Meeting held at 68 Northcourt Avenue
����20th III 1935
����Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting were read & approved

[...]

4. The Program of anonymous readings was then proceeded with[;] members reading in the order in which they sat round the room. An interval of about 2 minutes at the end of each piece was allowed for cogitation at the end of which the reader anounced the authors name & the work from which he had read. Identification proved unexpectedly dificult[.] No one reading was identified by everyone & the highest scorer only guessed eight authors & 4 & � works
Reader����Author����Work
E. B. Castle����Plato����Phaedo
M. S. W. Pollard����R. Browning����Pictures in Florence
E. Goadby����Saml. Butler����Notes
M. E. Robson����Flecker����Hassan
R. H. Robson����Belloc����Eyewitness
E. C. Stevens����M. Arnold����Self dependance
E. D. Brain����B. Shaw����Pre. to Back to Methuselah
M. Castle����T. Carlyle����Sartor Resartus
A. Rawlings����R. Browning����Pheidippides
J. Rawlings����G. Eliot����Middlemarch
E. B. Smith����Lewis Carroll����Phantasmagoria
F. E. Reynolds����Tennyson����Locksley Hall
S. A. Reynolds����E. B. Browning����Lady Geraldine�s Courtship
H. R. Smith����Chas. Kingsley����Westward Ho
F. E. Pollard ����Shelley����Prometheus Unbound'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

20 Mar 1935

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

city: Reading
county: Berkshire
specific address: 68, Northcourt 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:

Anon member of the XII Book Club

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

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

Members of the XII Book Club

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 19 February 1935

Genre:

Minutes

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Notebook

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

reading group

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Source Information:

Record ID:

29829

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

n/a

Title:

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

Location:

private collection

Call No:

n/a

Page/Folio:

133�134

Additional Information:

The author of this set of minutes is unidentified

Citation:

XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 3 (1931-1938), private collection, 133�134, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=29829, accessed: 04 February 2026

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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).