Record Number: 31600

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 7.iv.41
S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.

[...]

[Signed as a true record by] A. G. Joselin
5 May 1941'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Until: 7 Apr 1941

Country:

n/a

Time

evening

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Francis E. Pollard

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1872

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Formerly schoolmaster, now occasional lecturer and supply teacher, and supported also by wife's unearned income

Religion:

Quaker or associated with the Friends

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

J. M. Barrie

Title:

My Lady Nicotine

Genre:

Fiction, First-person narrative

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

31600

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Margaret Dilks

Title:

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

Location:

private collection

Call No:

n/a

Page/Folio:

92–6

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, 92–6, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=31600, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

F. E. Pollard will have read the text before selecting it to be read to the club by Janet Rawlings.
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).