Record Number: 31845
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Meeting held at Oakdene, 27. III. 1939
S. A. Reynolds in the chair.
[...]
2. Minutes of last read + approved.
3. A. B. Dilks read from Sir James Jeans’ ‘Universe around Us’. Man’s
insignificance was not even tempered by the possibility of life on Mars.
4. Muriel Stevens brought us to more homely surroundings with passages from
Eleanor Acland’s ‘Goodbye for the Present.’
5. Hilaire Belloc’s descriptive power was illustrated by R. H. Robson’s reading from
‘The Eyewitness’, telling of Napoleon’s pursuit of of Sir John Moore + a snow storm
in the Sierras.
6. Ethel C. Stevens’s extract from Agnes Hunt’s Reminiscences dealt with
experiences in the Tasmanian Bush.
7. R. D. L Moore read from T Jefferson Hogg – from a book published in 1833 – an
account of Shelley at Oxford.
8. Dorothea Taylor gave us Taine’s impressions of England written in 1871.
[...]
[signed] R. H. Robson
19. 5. 39'
1900-1945
Date:27 Mar 1939
Country:England
Timeevening
Place:city: Reading
county: Berkshire
specific address: Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
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
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:History of English Literature
Genre:History
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsPresumably the English translation by H. van Laun of Taine’s History of English literature
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:31845
Source:Manuscript
Author:n/a
Title:XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 4 (1938-1943)
Location:private collection
Call No:n/a
Page/Folio:40–1
Additional Information:
Although Victor Alexander was secretary to the XII Book Club at this time, it is clear from the handwriting that he was not the author of these minutes.
Citation:
XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 4 (1938-1943), private collection, 40–1, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=31845, accessed: 09 October 2024
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).