Events

July 2010

8 - 10 July: Robert Louis Stevenson. The 6th biennial Stevenson conference at Stirling University. For more detail visit the website at www.rls2010.stir.ac.uk/.

9 - 11 July: The John Clare Society. Annual festival in Helpstone, near Peterborough. More details on the website at www.johnclare.org.uk.

9 to 11 July: The Wells Society. The From Kent to Cosmopolis conference, will be held at the Darwin Conference Centre, University of Kent at Canterbury. Keynote speakers will include Brian Aldiss, John Hammond, John Huntington and Gwyneth Jones. Contact them to book.

17 July: The Eliot Society. The Little Gidding Eliot festival. Please see their website for details.

21 to 26 July: The 104th International Dickens Fellowship Annual Conference and AGM. In Eastbourne. Full details from dickens2010@googlemail.com.

21 to 28 July: Friends of Coleridge. 12th Coleridge Summer Conference at Canning, Somerset. See web site for details.

23 to 25 July: The International Shaw Society. The Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. The Call for Papers is at www.shawsociety.org/SummerSymposium-2010.htm, and the deadline for both abstracts and ISS Travel Grant applications is April 15, 2010.

23 to 25 July: The Shaw Society. Open Air Theatre at Shaw's Corner, Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire. Start 6.30 pm. Widowers' Houses.

24 July to 1 August: The Thomas Hardy Society. A conference which includes lectures/coach trips and evening entertainment throughout the week. Sir Andrew Motion will open the conference. Other speakers include Brian Pattern/Christopher Read and Claire Tomlain. More info at www.hardysociety.org.

August 2010

1 August: The Tennyson Society. Annual service at Bag Enderby. The speaker will be Rosalind Boyce on Forever Young: Harold Tennyson, the Poet's Grandson.

1 August: Seamus Heaney will read his poetry at the Wordsworth Summer Conference. At 8.30 pm in St Oswald's Church, Grasmere. Bookable in advance by sending sae and cheque for £7.50 per person (payable to the Wordsworth Conference Foundation) to Wordsworth Conference, Tirril Hall, Tirril, Penrith CA10 2JE.

14 August: The Anthony Powell Society. London Group Quarterly Pub Meet. At The Audley, Mount Street, London W1 at 12.30 to 15.30. Drink, food, good company and a Powell chat in a Victorian pub which AP would have known. Open to members and non-members. Booking not required. Contact the society for detail.

21 August to 28 November: the Bronte Society. Su Blackwell creates a series of papercut installations in response to the Brontes' lives and works. Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth. Free with admission to the museum.

September 2010

10 to 12 September: Virginia Woolf Society GB. A study weekend in Oxford. Details from website.

11 September: The Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship AGM at St Alban's Centre, Holborn, London. Speakers are Christian Major, Mhairi Pooler and Cecil Woolf. Details from secretary@sassoonfellowship.org.

11 September: The Rider Haggard Society. Holding its 2010 meeting at West Burton, Yorkshire. For details contact Roger Allen on rb27allen@blueyonder.co.uk.

11 September: The John Clare Society holds a conference at Nottingham Trent University, on creative responses to John Clare, entitled That Instinct That Would Not Be Still: John Clare and the Creative Arts. Begins 9.45/10.30 am and finishes around 4 pm. Includes talks by Adam Foulds (author of The Quickening Maze), Carry Akroyd and George Deacon. More detail to come at www.johnclare.org.uk.

17 September: the Bronte Society. At 8 pm. Kate Mosse talking about her latest novel The Winter Ghosts. West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth. Tickets £8 in advance from jenna.holmes@bronte.org.uk - 01535 640188.

18 September: the Bronte Society. At 7.30 pm. An evening with the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth. Tickets £12 in advance from jenna.holmes@bronte.org.uk.

October 2010

1 to 3 October: The Henry Williamson Society. They are holding their AGM in Barnstaple and celebrating their 30th anniversary.

9 October: The Tennyson Society. Annual wreathlaying at Westminster Abbey, 12 noon, subject to the approval of the Dean, followed by lunch.

9 October: the Bronte Society. At 11.15 am. Annual literary luncheon celebrating the bi-centenary of the birth of Mrs Gaskell. Speaker Jenny Uglow. The Crown Hotel, Harrogate. Talk and luncheon, £39. All welcome. Application forms and details www.bronte.org.uk.

22 - 23 October: The International Shaw Society. The Shaw Festival at Chicago with the ShawChicago Theater Co. For the call for papers, visit www.shawsociety.org/FallSymposium-2010.htm, and deadline for both absracts and ISS Travel Grant applications is 1 July 2010.

23 October: The Charles Williams Society will be meeting at St Matthew's Church, Westminster. The speaker is Dr Joshua Bradbury, who has just completed a doctoral thesis on Williams.

November 2010

12 - 13 November: the Friends of Alfred Williams. Festival in Swindon. For more detail visit their website at www.alfredwilliams.org.uk.

19 November: the Bronte Society. Between 6 and 8 pm. A celebration of the contemporary Arts Programme. Afternoon literary walk, tea at Southwark Cathedral and an evening wine and canape reception at Watermen's Hall, City of London with the eminent writers and artists who have contributed to this successful progamme. Appliction forms and details at www.bronte.org.uk.