Evidence: | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933 C. E. Stansfield in the chair 1 Minutes of last read and approved 2 For the Next Meeting's subject "The Jew in Literature" was chosen with Geo Burrow H. R. & E. B. Smith as committee [...] 4 The evening's subject of Berkshire in Literature was then opened up by Charles E. Stansfield reading from Tom Browns School days a description of the Vale of the White Horse[.] He carried us into a quietude of time & space where a great lover of the Vale tells of the great open downs & the vale to the north of them. Dorothy Brain told us something of Old Berkshire Ballads surprising us with their number & variety & read an amusing Ballad about a lad who died of eating custard, & the Lay of the Hunted Pig. C. E. Stansfield read an introduction to "Summer is a Cumen In"which was then played and sung on the Gramophone. H. R. Smith read a description of "Reading a Hundred Years Ago" from "Some Worthies of Reading" F. E. Pollard introduced Mary Russell Mitford to the Club giving a short account of her life and Work quoting with approval a description of her as "A prose Crabbe in the Sun" M. S. W. Pollard read "The Gypsy" from "Our Village" Geo Burrows gave us a short Reading from Mathew Arnolds "Scholar Gypsy" and a longer one from "Thyrsis"[.] During this the Stansfield "Mackie" put in a striking piece of synchronization. E. B. Castle read an interesting account of the Bucklebury Bowl Turner from H. V. Mortons "In Search of England". |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 28 Apr 1933 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Reading county: Berkshire specific address: 70, Northcourt Avenue |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | George Burrow |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
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: | n/a |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Members of the XII Book Club |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Matthew Arnold |
Title: | Thyrsis |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 29658 | |
Source - | Manuscript | |
Author: | Victor Alexander | |
Title: | XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 3 (1931-1938) | |
Location: | private collection | |
Call no: | n/a | |
Page/folio: | pp. 65-66 |
Citation: | Victor Alexander, XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 3 (1931-1938) private collection, p. pp. 65-66, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=29658, accessed: 23 April 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). |
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