| Evidence: | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37 [...] 6. The evening was completed by the reading of extracts from the works of various authors who had recently been awarded the Nobel prize for Literature. In the interests of truth it should perhaps be mentioned that the reading from French and Russian authors were given from English translations. R. H. Robson read from Dodsworth by Sinclair S. Lewis Mary S. W. Pollard [read from] The Village [by] Ivan Bunin L. Dorothea Taylor [read from] All God’s Chillun Got Wings [by] Eugene E. O'Neill H. R. Smith [read from] Les Thibault by Roger M. du Gard S. A Reynolds [read from] White Monkey [by] J. Galsworthy |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 14 Dec 1937 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | evening | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Reading county: Berkshire specific address: 70, Northcourt Avenue |
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| Reader: | Mary Pollard |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 1875 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | [personal unearned income] |
| 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: | Ivan Bunin |
| Title: | The Village |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 30125 | |
| Source - | Manuscript | |
| Author: | Victor Alexander | |
| Title: | XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 3 (1931-1938) | |
| Location: | private collection | |
| Call no: | n/a | |
| Page/folio: | 200–3 |
| Citation: | Victor Alexander, XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 3 (1931-1938) private collection, p. 200–3, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=30125, accessed: 02 December 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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