Playreading Society Minute Book, 1907 - 1915
Scope and Contents
Minutes, written up by Clive Bell, of the meetings of a play-reading society [?at 40 Gordon Square], with cast lists and comments on the performances by Clive Bell. The players were variously Clive Bell, Vanessa Bell, Walter Lamb, Adrian Stephen, Lytton Strachey and Saxon Sydney-Turner, 1907-9; Clive Bell, Vanessa Bell, Roger and Margery Fry, Duncan Grant, Molly MacCarthy and Saxon Sydney-Turner, 1914-15. For the later period, fewer performance details are recorded. The book was used thereafter by Clive Bell as a rough literary note book.
Dates
- Creation: 1907 - 1915
Creator
Extent
1 volume(s) : paper
Language of Materials
English
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Conserved in November 1998 by Cambridge Colleges' Conservation Consortium
Date information
DateText: Dec. 1907-Jan. 1909 and Oct. 1914-Feb.1915.
Originator(s)
Bell, Clive
Finding aid date
2003-11-21 11:49:15+00:00
Subject
- Fry, Sara Margery, 1874 - 1958 (Principal of Somerville College Oxford) (Person)
- Woolf, Adeline Virginia, 1882 - 1941 (novelist) (Person)
- Strachey, Giles Lytton, 1880 - 1932 (biographer and critic) (Person)
- Grant, Duncan James Corrowr, 1885 - 1978 (painter) (Person)
- Bell, Vanessa, 1879 - 1961 (painter) (Person)
- MacCarthy, Mary Josefa, 1882 - 1953 (writer) (Person)
- Fry, Roger Eliot, 1866 - 1934 (painter and art critic) (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Archive Centre, King's College, Cambridge Repository
Archivist
King's College
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