Evidence: | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38. 1. Minutes of last read and approved. [...] 4. Readings from Irish Literature were then given as follows:- C. E. Stansfield from G. A. Birmingham’s “Spanish Gold”; H. R. Smith from a story about an illicit still; Mary Robson from the preface of Bernard Shaw’s “John Bull’s Other Island;” Rosamund Wallis[;] Victor Alexander from Ross and Somerville’s “An Irish R.M.”[;] Elsie Sikes from ? some Irish Bulls |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 14 Mar 1938 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Reading county: Berkshire specific address: Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Road |
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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: | 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: | unknown |
Title: | [a specimen of Irish literature] |
Genre: | Unknown, Ireland |
Form of Text: | Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 30162 | |
Source - | Manuscript | |
Author: | Victor Alexander | |
Title: | XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 4 (1938-1943) | |
Location: | private collection | |
Call no: | n/a | |
Page/folio: | 7 |
Citation: | Victor Alexander, XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 4 (1938-1943) private collection, p. 7, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=30162, 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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