| Evidence: | 'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929 Geo H Burrow in the chair Min 1. Minutes of last time read and approved
5 The Subject of the evening Modern American Literature was then taken F. E. Pollard introducing us to a number of Authors in a short general Survey. Geo Burrows then read us several short examples in Verse[.] Rosamund Wallis read two passages from "the Bridge of St Louis Rey" by Thornton Wilder[.] Thos C. Elliott read an essay on "War" by George Santiana[.] Chas E Stansfield read a poem "Renaissance by E. St Vincent Millay[.] R. H. Robson gave us two readings from Sinclair Lewis’s Babbit' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 6 Jun 1929 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | evening | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Reading county: Berkshire specific address: Broomfield |
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| Reader: | Reginald H. Robson |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1877 |
| Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
| Occupation: | n/a |
| 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: | n/a |
| Author: | Sinclair Lewis |
| Title: | Babbitt |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 29314 | |
| Source - | Manuscript | |
| Author: | Howard Smith | |
| Title: | XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 2 (1915-31) | |
| Location: | private collection | |
| Call no: | n/a | |
| Page/folio: | 191 |
| Citation: | Howard Smith, XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 2 (1915-31) private collection, p. 191, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=29314, accessed: 30 May 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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