Record Number: 30024

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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".'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

1 Dec 1936

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

city: Reading
county: Berkshire
specific address: 70, 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:

William Fryer Harvey

Title:

We Were Seven

Genre:

Autobiog / Diary, Childhood reminiscences

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

London: Constable & Co., 1936

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

30024

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=30024, accessed: 22 November 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).