Record Number: 30186
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Meeting held at 219 King’s Road: 27.5.38
L. Dorothea Taylor in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved
2. A brief introduction to the brothers [sic] Zweig and their work was given by R. H. Robson.
Owing to a confusion of dates and names in one of the sources from which he derived his
informations, the brothers were made to indulge in some unrehearsed interchanges of thought
and interest, which both mystified and entertained the Club, and combined the authors in our
minds inextricably as a pair of intellectually-Siamese twins.
3. F. E. Pollard gave the first reading from Stepan [sic] Zweig’s “The Right to Heresy”. It was
keen incisive stuff read with a gusto that would have delighted Bernard Shaw.
4. Elizabeth Alexander followed with some pleasant descriptive paragraphs of Palestine, Jewish
and Arabic, from the somewhat unpleasant “De Vriendt Goes Home” of Arnold Zweig.
5. Janet Rawlings read some extracts from Stepan Zweig’s “Sternstunden der Menscheit [sic]”, a
telling story of the wealth and poverty of a scoundrel [John Sutter] at the time of the rise of San
Francisco; and we beg respectfully to congratulate her on the translation.
6. Roger Moore’s reading from Stepan Zweig’s “Adepts in Self Portraiture” was greatly enhanced
by the notes and comments he added to it, and particularly in the case of Tolstoi, and this paper
led to some enlightening discussion.
7. Elsie Sikes read a description of an encounter between a lynx and an escaped prisoner from
“The Case of Sergeant Grischa” by Arnold Zweig. [...]
8. Mary Robson’s reading from Stepan Zweig’s “Mary Queen of Scots” brought the historians into
the fray for and against, but Stepan was unhappily absent to tell us of his sources.
9. Reginald Robson closed the programme with some scenes from Stepan Zweig’s “Marie
Antoinette.”'
1900-1945
Date:27 May 1938
Country:England
Timeevening
Place:city: Reading
county: Berkshire
specific address: 219 King's Road
(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: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
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:De Vriendt Goes Home
Genre:Geography / Travel
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:30186
Source:Manuscript
Author:Victor Alexander
Title:XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 4 (1938-1943)
Location:private collection
Call No:n/a
Page/Folio:9–11
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. 4 (1938-1943), private collection, 9–11, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=30186, accessed: 17 August 2024
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).