Evidence: | 'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of their production. F.E. Pollard read an amusing account of an unconventional dinner party from "La Reine Pedauque" & A. Rawlings gave us some extracts from "The Memoirs of Abbe Coignard". After supper R.H. Robson amused us with the story of the Baptism of the penguins by the Blessed Mael "Penguin Island" & Mrs Evans gave us a glimpse of France's more sober philosophy in a series of short essays from "The Garden of Epicures". Mrs Rawlings read a charming passage on Joan of Arc and Miss Marriage read us one of the cynical passages from a novel "The Red Lily".' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 20 Nov 1923 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Reading specific address: 'Whinfell' |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Reginald Robson |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1877 |
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: | Anatole France |
Title: | Penguin Island |
Genre: | Fiction, satire |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | reading group |
Record ID: | 27803 | |
Source - | Manuscript | |
Author: | Howard R. Smith | |
Title: | XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 2 (1915-31) | |
Location: | Private Collection | |
Call no: | n/a | |
Page/folio: | 125-6 |
Citation: | Howard R. Smith, XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 2 (1915-31) Private Collection, p. n/a, p. 125-6, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27803, accessed: 01 June 2023 |
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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