Record Number: 31546

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 10.2.41 A. B. Dilks in the chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
4. The subject for this evening was “Winter – in Poetry & Prose”. [...]
The programme was as follows:
Dickens – extract from “A Christmas Carol” read by R. D. L. Moore
Hardy – “The Mellstock Carols” from ‘Under the Greeenwood Tree’ read by Mrs. H. R. [Edith] Smith
Shakespeare – “Blow, blow thou winter wind” sung by F. E. Pollard
V. Sackville West – extract from a poem “The Land” read by Margaret Dilks
H. M. Wallis – Account of the Blizzard of 1881 read by Howard Smith
Dickens – The Pickwick Club on the Ice read by A. B. Dilks
Mendelssohn – The Hebrides overture played by Beecham & the L.P.O. (on gramophone records)'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

10 Feb 1941

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

city: Reading
county: Berkshire
specific address: 39, Eastern 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:

Edith B. Smith

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1886

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

Quaker

Country of Origin:

Unknown

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:

Thomas Hardy

Title:

Under the Greenwood Tree

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

31546

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Margaret Dilks

Title:

XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 4 (1938-1943)

Location:

private collection

Call No:

n/a

Page/Folio:

87–8

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, 87–8, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=31546, 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).