Record Number: 30654
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Minutes of Meeting held at School House. 3rd April 1943
R. D. L. Moore in the Chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
[...]
4. Roger Moore introduced the subject of ‘Ballads’. He spoke of their origin, which
is very obscure since anonymity belongs to their very nature. They were never
meant to be ‘literature’, since they were not written but have come down to us
orally until Bishop Percy in 1765 started making his collection. He quoted Quiller-
Couch in saying that almost all the places most celebrated in ballad poetry lie in
the Border country between two lines, one drawn from the Firth of Forth to the
Clyde & the other from Newcastle-on-Tyne to St Bee’s Head. Quiller-Couch also
draws two chronological lines — at the years 1350 and 1550 & holds that the Ballad rose, flourished & declined within that period.
5. Illustrations of Ballads were given as follows:
Tam Lin read by Elsie Harrod
The Two Magicians sung by A. B. Dilks
Sir Patrick Spens read by Kenneth Nicholson
The Suffolk Miracle [read by] Margaret Dilks
Chevy Chase [read by] Knox Taylor
Some Berkshire Ballads —
Archbishop Laud
Mollie Mog
The Lay of the Hunted Pig
Cupid’s Garden ——— read by Howard Smith
John Barleycorn — read by Isabel Taylor
Edward — [read by] Bruce Dilks.
[signed as a true record by] Muriel M. Stevens
8 - 5 - 43. [at the club meeting held at Gower Cottage: see Minute Book, p. 153.]'
1900-1945
Date:3 Apr 1943
Country:England
Timeevening
Place:city: Reading
county: Berkshire
specific address: School House, Leighton Park School
(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: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:Sir Patrick Spens
Genre:Poetry, Folk song, Ballads
Form of Text:Unknown
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:30654
Source:Manuscript
Author:Margaret Dilks
Title:XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 4 (1938-1943)
Location:private collection
Call No:n/a
Page/Folio:151–153
Additional Information:
Margaret Dilks was secretary to the XII Book Club from 1940 to 1970. It is inferred from this, and from the handwriting, that she was the author of this set of minutes.
Citation:
Margaret Dilks, XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 4 (1938-1943), private collection, 151–153, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=30654, accessed: 28 October 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).