Record Number: 29609

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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

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

15 Nov 1932

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

city: Reading
county: Berkshire
specific address: 30, Northcourt Avenue

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Victor Alexander

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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

XII Book Club Book Selection Committee

Title:

[Subsidiary list of books to be considered for purchase by the XII Book Club]

Genre:

Booklist, Committee paper

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

n/a

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Source Information:

Record ID:

29609

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=29609, accessed: 27 September 2024

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Additional Comments:

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).