Record Number: 29607
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Meeting held at 30, Northcourt Avenue: 15.XI.32
Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved
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5. The Secretary then performed the invidious task of putting the dozen books favoured by the Selection Committee before the Meeting.
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The other seeded books then underwent their ordeal and the subsidiary list was read a first time.
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Nevertheless twelve books emerged with no less than 11 votes apiece. They are:
They were defeated R. Macaulay 8/6 E. T. Alexander
The Cruel Victorians Forty Authors 8/6 H. R. Smith
Flowering Wilderness J. Galsworthy 7/6 C. E. Stansfield
The New Morality G. E. Newsom 6/- G. Burrow
Sir W. Scott[?] Buchan 9/6 G. Burrow
Strawberry Roan A. G. Street 7/6 E. D. Brain
Bonnie Prince Charlie Wickinson 12/6 R. H. Robson
Nansen Reynolds 10/6 E. D. Brain
As we are E. F. Benson 15/- E. C. Stevens
Northern Lights Chapman 18/- M. S. Stansfield
Youth looks at the World Fletcher 7/6 H. M. Wallis
Land and Labour in China Tawney 7/6 S. A. Reynolds
1900-1945
Date:15 Nov 1932
Country:England
Timeevening
Place:city: Reading
county: Berkshire
specific address: 30, Northcourt Avenue
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:1887
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
Members of the XII Book Club
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 13 October 1932]
Genre:Minutes
Form of Text:Manuscript: Notebook
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenancereading group
Source Information:
Record ID:29607
Source:Manuscript
Author:Victor Alexander
Title:XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 3 (1931-1938)
Location:private collection
Call No:n/a
Page/Folio:49-51
Additional Information:
Victor Alexander was secretary to the XII Book Club from 1931 to 1940. It is inferred from this that he was the author of this set of minutes.
Citation:
Victor Alexander, XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 3 (1931-1938), private collection, 49-51, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=29607, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
It is assumed that it was Victor Alexander, as secretary of the club, who read out the minutes of the previous meeting.
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).