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|author=Polly Morland
|title=The Society of Timid Souls: Or, How to be Brave
|rating=3.5
|genre=Reference
|summary='I see no reason why the shy and timid in any community couldn’t get together and help each other.'
The above words were uttered in 1943 by a gentleman called Bernard Gabriel. Mr Gabriel was a piano player who founded a unique club, ''The Society of Timid Souls'' that encouraged timid performers and fear-wracked musicians to come in out of the cold 'to play, to criticise and be criticised in order to conquer that old bogey of stage fright.' The method evidently worked, as many a timid soul claimed to be cured by these unorthodox methods and club membership grew considerably in the years that followed.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251908</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mary Beard