Record Number: 31644

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[The first two pages of these minutes (pp. 103–4) are missing from the scans. They will have begun: ‘Meeting held at 39 Eastern Avenue 31st May 1941     A. B. Dilks in the chair’]
[...]
4. We adjourned for refreshment.

5. The evening was devoted to a reading of “George and Margaret” by Gerald Savory. The Star performance was undoubtedly Edith Smith as Beer, the dumb domestic. The other players being:
Gladys ... Margaret Dilks
Malcolm ... Howard Smith
Alice ... Muriel Stevens
Dudley ... Roger Moore and/or Knox Taylor
Frankie ... Isabel Taylor
Claude ... Bruce Dilks
Roger ... Frank Pollard
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Century:

1900-1945

Date:

14 Jul 1941

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

city: Reading
county: Berkshire
specific address: 39, 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:

Edith B. Smith

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1886

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:

Gerald Savory

Title:

George and Margaret

Genre:

Drama

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

31644

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Margaret Dilks

Title:

XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 4 (1938-1943)

Location:

private collection

Call No:

n/a

Page/Folio:

105

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. 4 (1938-1943), private collection, 105, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=31644, accessed: 18 February 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).