Record Number: 30022
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue:- 1.12.36
C. E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of last read + approved
4. The Secretary presented a statement of accounts showing the Club to have a balance of £1-
18-0, with money from the auction still to come.
6. Readings were then given by the following people.
F. E. Pollard: from Lloyd George’s Memoirs.
Dorothea Taylor from Quennells
A Rawlings: the story of Hervé Riel
H. R. Smith: from Nevinson’s Between Two [sic] Wars.
V. W. Alexander: from W. F. Harvey’s "We were seven".'
1900-1945
Date:1 Dec 1936
Country:England
Timeevening
Place:city: Reading
county: Berkshire
specific address: 70, 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:1855
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Businessman turned painter and illustrator
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:[the story of Hervé Riel]
Genre:Biography, Navigation
Form of Text:Publication Details
n/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:30022
Source:Manuscript
Author:Victor Alexander
Title:XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 3 (1931-1938)
Location:private collection
Call No:n/a
Page/Folio:180–1
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, 180–1, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=30022, accessed: 29 September 2024
Additional Comments:
The text read could have been ‘Hervé Riel’, the poem by Robert Browning, or another account of the seventeenth-century French fisherman who guided the French fleet to safety after the battle of Barfleur.
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).