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Record Number: 29853

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Meeting held at 22, Cintra Avenue: 14.5.35
    Francis E. Pollard in the Chair
1. Minutes of last read + approved.

[...]

4. We then read Badger�s Green. Mrs. Goadby and Reginald Robson had allotted the parts as follows:—
Doctor Wetherby    F. E. Pollard
Major Forrester    R. H. Robson
Mr. Twigg    V. W. Alexander
Mr. Butler    E. B. Castle
Mr. Rogers    H. R. Smith
Dickie [Wetherby]    E. Mary Reynolds
Mrs. Wetherby    Elisabeth Alexander
Major Forrester    Mary Pollard
Mr. Butler�s Secretary    Dorothy K. Goadby
Mary    Mary Robson

The reading was very good fun. The well meaning self importance of Dr. Wetherby & Major Forrester, & the much doubted organizing ability of their respective wives provided the setting of local jealousy + futility in which the skill and tact of Mr. Butler + his Secretary showed up well. The secret passion of Mr. Twigg for entomology + fretwork and the breezy heartiness of Dickie provided some comic moments, while the thick pated, bucolic characters — Mr. Rogers + Mary — grounded the play firmly in its village simplicity.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

14 May 1935

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

city: Reading
county: Berkshire
specific address: 22, Cintra 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:

Mary Pollard

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1875

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

[personal unearned income]

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:

R. C. Sherriff

Title:

Badger�s Green

Genre:

Drama

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

29853

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Victor Alexander

Title:

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

Location:

private collection

Call No:

n/a

Page/Folio:

134�138

Additional Information:

n/a

Citation:

Victor Alexander, XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 3 (1931-1938), private collection, 134�138 , http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=29853, accessed: 06 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).