Evidence: | 'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of readings and songs were given as under.
What Dick & I did S.A. Reynolds
The Sky Man W.S. Rowntree
Ellen Brine of Allenburn Mrs Reynolds
The Waggon (a tripartite dram. prem) by Whinfell family
Praise o' Dorset Mrs Evans
The Settle C.I. Evans
[a list of songs and singers follows]' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 4 Feb 1916 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Reading specific address: The Lawn, Upper Redlands Rd |
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Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Walter S. Rowntree |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1860 |
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) |
Members of XII Book Club |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | William Barnes |
Title: | 'Sky Man, the' |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | reading group |
Record ID: | 27038 | |
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: | 10-11 |
Citation: | Ernest E. Unwin, XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 2 (1915-31) Private collection, p. n/a, p. 10-11, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27038, accessed: 28 March 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). I assume the list quoted is of poems by Barnes that were read, as a separate list (not quoted) gives songs. |
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