Evidence: | Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38. F. E. Pollard in the chair 1. Minutes of last read and approved [...] 6. C. E. Stansfield opened the proceedings on Æ [A-E ligature, the name adopted by George William Russell] by a detailed biographical sketch of some length, in the course of which we gained some idea of the contradictions and complexities of A. E.’s character. [...] An interesting personal touch was added to the sketch by F. E. Pollard who had been present at one of Æ’s “salon” receptions. 7. Extracts from A. E’s prose were then read by Mary S. W. Pollard on “Gandhi,” and by F. E. Pollard on “The one dimensional mind”. 8. Finally F. E. Pollard and V. W. Alexander read three of A.E.’s poems. 9. By this time most of us were more than ready for a little lighter matter, and we thoroughly appreciated some delightful touches from The Tinker’s Wedding by Synge which Rosamund Wallis gave with evident relish. |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 20 Jan 1938 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Reading county: Berkshire specific address: St. Margaret's, Shinfield Road |
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Reader: | Charles E. Stansfield |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1865 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Retired schoolmaster, then administrator |
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: | Charles E. Stansfield |
Title: | [A detailed biographical sketch of Æ (AE, or George William Russell)] |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Biography |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 30130 | |
Source - | Manuscript | |
Author: | Victor Alexander | |
Title: | XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 4 (1938-1943) | |
Location: | private collection | |
Call no: | n/a | |
Page/folio: | 0–2 |
Citation: | Victor Alexander, XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 4 (1938-1943) private collection, p. 0–2, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=30130, accessed: 30 November 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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