Record Number: 29855

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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 E. Robson

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1884

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:

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:

29855

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=29855, accessed: 09 May 2025

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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).