Evidence: | 'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Eden. Miss Bowman-Smith played Debussy's "Garden Under the Rain" Miss D. Brain gave us an essay on Hampton Court gardens & their history.
F.E. Pollard a song Summer Afternoon
Rosamund Wallis read from Sir Wm Temple on Gardens
Mrs F. E. Pollard read Michael Drayton's Daffodil
Alfred Rawlings charmed us by showing a series of his Water Colour drawings "Gardens I have Known"
Mrs Robson sang two songs June Rapture & Unfolding
After supper Mrs Stansfield read a paper by Mr Stansfield who was prevented by a severe cold from being present on Gardening in which he showed how Gardening is one of the fine Arts in fact the noblest of the plastic Arts
F. E. Pollard sang Andrew Marvell's "Thoughts in a Garden"
Mrs Burrow read Walter de la Mare's Sunken Garden
Mrs Stansfield read from The Story of my Ruin
and in a concluding reading Geo Burrow brought our minds back to the Garden of Eden'. |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 15 Jun 1927 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Reading specific address: 'Broomfield' |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Rosamund Wallis |
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: | 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 Temple |
Title: | [on gardens] |
Genre: | Agriculture / horticulture / husbandry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | reading group |
Record ID: | 28173 | |
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: | 167-8 |
Citation: | Howard R. Smith, XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 2 (1915-31) private collection, p. n/a, p. 167-8, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28173, accessed: 06 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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