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Record 29229

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
H. M. Wallis delighted us with an account of War Time Tree fellings
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 19 Oct 1928
Country: England
Time: evening
Place: city: Reading
county: Berkshire
specific address: 30 Northcourt 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

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Henry Marriage Wallis
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1854
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Corn, seed and coal merchant
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, workmates)
Members of XII Book Club
Additional comments: Occupation taken from Geoffrey Cantor, ‘Quaker Responses to Darwin’, Osiris, n.s. 16 (2001), 321–342 (p. 322).

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Henry Marriage Wallis
Title: War Time Tree Fellings
Genre: Unknown
Form of Text: Manuscript: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 29229  
  Source - Manuscript
  Author: Howard Smith
  Title: XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 2 (1915-31)
  Location: private collection
  Call no: n/a
  Page/folio: 181

Citation: Howard Smith, XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 2 (1915-31) private collection, p. 181, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=29229, accessed: 18 April 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).

 

 

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