Evidence: | 'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the public services, & the conflict of personalities as shown in 'Father & Son' & his great interest in the Scandinavian peoples. Miss Marriage gave some very interesting readings from '2 Visits to Denmark' 'The Episode of the Plum Pudding served in a Tureen' & the dear lady who remarked "It brings the dear English nation so near to one".
Ed. Gosse has also done great work as a critic - one sentence which fell from H.M.W.in relation to Swinburne.
"A drunken monkey who gave utterance to the songs of angels".
C.I. Evans spoke upon the Poems. These belong to the period round about 1872 & are frankly of that period & makeup. Perhaps versifying would be the best term to use as they do not quite rank as poetry.'
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 20 Nov 1919 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Reading | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Henry Marriage Wallis |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1854 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | Quaker or associated with the Friends |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Edmund Gosse |
Title: | Father & Son: A Study of Two Temperaments |
Genre: | Autobiog / Diary |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | reading group |
Record ID: | 27369 | |
Source - | Manuscript | |
Author: | Ernest E. Unwin | |
Title: | XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 2 (1915-31) | |
Location: | Private Collection | |
Call no: | n/a | |
Page/folio: | 68-9 |
Citation: | Ernest E. Unwin, XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 2 (1915-31) Private Collection, p. n/a, p. 68-9, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27369, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
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). |
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