Record Number: 29938

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35
    Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

[...]

7. We then listened to a number of extracts from books read during the summer. [...]

9. Janet Rawlings provided some lighter fare with if you will allow the pun two tales from The Frivolous Mouse, by Manfred Kef[?]er [i.e. ‘Kyber’]. In spite of the excellence of the English we no doubt missed many of the allusions and some of the satire. But it was excellent fun, + it would be hard to say whether we were more intrigued by the connexion between morals and velvet, or by the crocodile with his unsympathetic expression round the mouth, and the little ape and his sweetheart.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

13 Sep 1935

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

city: Reading
county: Berkshire
specific address: School House, Leighton Park School

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:

Janet Rawlings

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

Members of the XII Book Club

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Manferd Kyber

Title:

The Frivolous Mouse [Die Leichtsinnige Maus]

Genre:

Fiction, Children's Lit, Short story, Animal fantasy, Translation

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Manfred Kyber, Amongst Animals [Unter Tieren], trans. by Olive Fishwick (London: J. Bale & Co., 1934)

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

29938

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Victor Alexander

Title:

XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 3 (1931-1938)

Location:

private collection

Call No:

n/a

Page/Folio:

147–149

Additional Information:

n/a

Citation:

Victor Alexander, XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 3 (1931-1938), private collection, 147–149, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=29938, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

The source has confused the name of one of the tales with that of the collection in which it appears.
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).