|
April 2013
Each Saturday in April, Jane Austen walking tours around Lyme Regis.
11.30 am until 1 pm. Starting at the anchor at the bottom of Broad Street behind the Rock Point Inn. £7 adults
and £3.50 children. Visit www.janeaustensoci.freeuk.com/pages/events.htm for detail.
3 April: The Epsom & Ewell Literary Society lecture by Christopher Lewis: 'Dear
Professor, I wish to protest ...' at 7pm for 7.30pm in the Epsom Playhouse, Ashley Ave, Epsom. Visit www.epsomlit.org.uk for details.
6 April: The Charles Lamb Society has a talk on The Comic Imagination of Lamb
and Coleridge, by Dr Gregory Leadbetter of Birmingham City University, at 2.30 pm, at Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury
Way, London WC1. Details at their website.
6 April: The Richard Jefferies Society talk by
Simon Coleman on The London Experience and How It Affected Richard Jefferies. At 2pm at the Richard Jefferies Museum,
Marlborough Road, Coate, Swindon SN3 6AA. Parking available in Dayhouse Lane and at the Sun Inn. Free to
attend, and all are welcome.
13 April: the Gaskell Society AGM - visit www.gaskellsociety.co.uk for detail.
14 April: The William Barnes Society is holding its Annual Service of Remembrance
at Winterborne Came Church, near Dorchester, 10.30 am. Contact jill.bryant@virgin.net.
15 April: Poet in the City event, The Trojan Horse - featuring some of the most highly acclaimed
voices from contemporary poetry celebrating poetry about the Iliad and the Odyssey - at Kings Place, London - visit their
website for details.
19 April: The Trollope Society dinner in the Peers Dining Room of the House
of Lords under the kind sponsorship of Lord Cormack, at 7pm. Visit their website for details.
23
April: The Trollope Society is holding a discussion of Trollope's The Belton Estate at 6pm for 6.30pm
in Edinburgh. contact jdover@post.harvard.edu.
25 April: The Trollope Society is holding a discussion of Trollope''s The
Belton Estate at 6pm for 6.30pm in Manchester. Contact j.ammar@hotmail.co.uk.
25 April: Poet in the City event celebrating the life and works of Dante - at Southwark Cathedral
- detail from their website.
25 April: The Trollope Society is holding a talk at 6pm for 6.30pm
at the Friends' Meeting House in Mount Street, Manchester - contact j.ammar@hotmail.co.uk.
27 April: The Bronte Society are holding a spring walk in Scarborough, to include the dedication
of a memorial plaque at Anne Bronte's grave.
May 2013
Each Saturday
in May, Jane Austen walking tours around Lyme Regis. 11.30 am until 1 pm. Starting
at the anchor at the bottom of Broad Street behind the Rock Point Inn. £7 adults and £3.50 children. Visit www.janeaustensoci.freeuk.com/pages/events.htm for detail.
1 May: The Epsom & Ewell Literary Society lecture by Michael Pointon:
P G Wodehouse - Jeeves, Wooster, Blandings Castle and all that
at 7pm for 7.30pm in the Epsom Playhouse, Ashley
Ave, Epsom. Visit www.epsomlit.org.uk for details.
2 May: The Trollope Society is holding a talk on Trollope and the Civil Service,
at 6pm for 6.30pm in Tottenham Court Road, London. Contact martin.chown@cantab.net.
3 May: The Chichester Literary Society holds a talk: don Parton Recollections of a Second
Hand Bookseller.
9 May: The Betjeman Society an Exploration of City Churches - Nooks and
Crannies - with Andrew Davies. Meet at the Monument at 11 am. Contact the Society to book as numbers limited.
11 May: The Gaskell Society talk by Carolyn Lambert on Sex, Stability and Secret Artefacts
and Rituals in Gaskell's Fiction, at 2pm at Francis Holland School, Graham Terrace, London - visit www.gaskellsociety.co.uk for detail.
11 May: The Charles Lamb Society has its AGM, followed by a talk Lamb and France
by Dr Michel Jolibois, Docteur en Etudes Anglophones de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris. At 2.30 pm, Swedenborg Hall, 20-21
Bloomsbury Way, London WC1.
11 May: An evening with Samuel Pepys - at the Old Gaol, Buckingham,
starts at 8pm; tickets £12. Email sue@pierssnell.force9.co.uk for more detail.
11 May: The William Barnes Society is holding an event at 6.30 pm. William
Barnes and the Dorsetshire Labourer presented by Graham Moore (folksinger, songwriter and storyteller) at Whitcombe Church
near Dorchester. Come early and bring a picnic! Further details at jill.bryant@virgin.net.
11 May: The Richard Jefferies Society talk by Ray (Badger) Walker about his personal friendship
with 'BB'. At 2pm at the Richard Jefferies Museum, Marlborough Road, Coate, Swindon SN3 6AA. Parking
available in Dayhouse Lane and at the Sun Inn. Free to attend, and all are welcome.
11 May: The James Hilton
Society is holding an event to discuss Hilton's novel And Now Goodbye, and will coincide with the unveiling
of a plaque on Hilton's birthplace at Leigh, Lancashire. Visit www.jameshiltonsociety.co.uk for more detail.
12 May: The Trollope Society is holding a discussion of Trollope's The
Macdermots of Ballycloran from 2.30pm to 5pm in Cambridge. Contact michael@thecleeve.freeserve.co.uk.
18 May: The Chichester Literary Society is holding a London Literary Walk.
18
- 19 May: the Walmesley Society AGM and annual weekend event at Fylingdales Village Hall, Robin Hood's
Bay. Visit their website for details.
20 May: Poet in the City an event celebrating
the life and works of Rimbaud and Verlaine and the time they spent in London - at Kings Place, London - visit their website
for detail.
30 May: The Trollope Society is holding a talk on Trollope's La Vendee at
6pm for 6.30pm at the Friends' Meeting House in Mount Street, Manchester - contact j.ammar@hotmail.co.uk.
June 2013
Each Saturday in June, Jane Austen
walking tours around Lyme Regis. 11.30 am until 1 pm. Starting at the anchor at the bottom of Broad Street
behind the Rock Point Inn. £7 adults and £3.50 children. Visit www.janeaustensoci.freeuk.com/pages/events.htm for detail.
1 - 2 June: The ALS weekend in Oxford with the Barbara Pym Society.
Based at St Hilda's College - a weekend of talks, walks, in interesting company.
1 - 3 June: The Traherne
Association is holding their 23rd festival at Credenhill Church, near Hereford. Talks, walks and outing to
Launton in Oxfordshire. Contact hilary.jackson@talktalk.net for detail.
6 June: The Trollope Society is holding a discussion of Trollope's The Vicar
of Bulhampton at 5pm in Oxford. Contact hrogerharvey@aol.com.
7 June: The Bronte Society AGM weekend takes place in Haworth. Visit their website for
detail.
7 June: The Chichester Literary Society holds a meeting: Nicola Slade From Marriage
to Murder.
7 - 9 June: The Trollope Society is holding a weekend course on Trollope's
Miss Mackenzie and The Claverings, at Wansfell College in Epping, Essex. Contact johnmarilyn2000@yahoo.co.uk.
8 June: The Arnold Bennett Society 10th Annual Conference: London Life: Arnold Bennett's Capital
Writing, at the North Staffordshire Conference Centre, Hartshill, Staffordshire. Details from www.arnoldbennettsociety.org.uk.
9 June: the Trollope
Society is holding a discussion of Trollope's An Eye for an Eye, at 6pm for 6.30pm in Manchester.
Contact j.ammar@hotmail.co.uk.
12 June: the Trollope Society will discuss Barchester Towers, in York, at 6.30 pm.
Contact peter.lee@york.ac.uk.
15 June: The Betjeman Society
AGM at 11 am for 11.30 am in Canterbury at the Dominican Priory, including a talk by John Butler on the Red Dean.
15 June: The William Barnes Society holds its Annual Summer Lunch from 12 noon for 12.30 pm at the
Kings Arms Hotel, High East Street, Dorchester. Speaker: Rev Dr John Travell William Barnes and the Hearing of the
Word. Book essential. Contact Brian Caddy on 01305 260348.
17 June: Poet in the City
event Poems that Make Grown Men Cry - in partnership with Amnesty International - at Kings Place, London - visit their website
for detail.
21 - 23 June: The Austen Society Pride and Prejudice Conference at Lady Cavendish
College, University of Cambridge - for detail visit www.janeaustensoci.freeuk.com/pages/events.htm.
22 June: The Mark Rutherford Society is marking the anniversary of his death with exhibitions
at Bedford and Carshalton and a symposium at Dr Williams's Library, 14 Gordon Square, London. Visit their website
for more detail.
25 June: The Trollope Society is holding a discussion of Trollope's Miss
Mackenzie at 6pm for 6.30pm in Edinburgh. Contact j.dover@post.harvard.edu.
July 2013
Each Saturday in July, Jane Austen
walking tours around Lyme Regis. 11.30 am until 1 pm. Starting at the anchor at the bottom of Broad Street
behind the Rock Point Inn. £7 adults and £3.50 children. Visit www.janeaustensoci.freeuk.com/pages/events.htm for detail.
4 July: The Trollope Society is holding a talk at 6pm for 6.30pm at the Friends'
Meeting House in Mount Street, Manchester - contact j.ammar@hotmail.co.uk.
7 July: the Trollope Society will discuss The Kellys and the O'Kellys, in Cambridge
at 2.30 pm. Contact michael@thecleeve.freeserve.uk.
12 - 14 July: The John Clare
Society Festival in Helpston, near Peterborough. Visit their website for detail.
19 - 22
July: The Gaskell Society Conference, at Stratford on Avon - visit www.gaskellsociety.co.uk for detail.
20 July: The Jane Austen Society AGM and afternoon lecture. For detail go to www.janeaustensoci.freeuk.com/pages/events.htm.
20 July: The Betjeman Society at 10 am, starting at Guildford Railway Station, a coach tour
around Betjeman's Surrey. Booking essential, numbers limited.
25 - 28 July: The Martineau Society
Conference 2013 will be held at The Oxford Hotel, Godstow Road, Oxford, OX2 8AL. Further details from the Society's
website.
27 July: The Richard Jefferies Society is holding a study day at the Richard
Jefferies Museum, Marlborough Road, Coate, Swindon SN3 6AA. From 10.30am to 4.30pm. Theme: Food and
drink in Jefferies' world. Parking available in Dayhouse Lane and at the Sun Inn. Free to attend, and all are welcome.
More info at http://richarjefferiessociety.co.uk.
August 2013
Each Wednesday at 7 pm and Sunday at 1 pm in August,
Jane Austen walking tours around Lyme Regis. 11.30 am until 1 pm. Starting at the anchor
at the bottom of Broad Street behind the Rock Point Inn. £7 adults and £3.50 children. Visit www.janeaustensoci.freeuk.com/pages/events.htm for detail.
28 August: The Betjeman Society, celebrating his birthday, by his statue at St Pancras
Station, 4 pm.
28 August: The Betjeman Society, the annual birthday party at the East India Club,
16 St James' Square, 6pm for 6.30 pm. Booking essential.
September 2013
Each Wednesday at 7 pm and Sunday at 1 pm in September, Jane Austen walking tours around
Lyme Regis. 11.30 am until 1 pm. Starting at the anchor at the bottom of Broad Street behind the Rock Point
Inn. £7 adults and £3.50 children. Visit www.janeaustensoci.freeuk.com/pages/events.htm for detail.
6 September: The Chichester Literary Society holds a talk: John Clegg on Robert
Louis Stevenson.
7 - 8 September: The Kings Place Festival in London. Visit the Poet in
the City website for detail.
14 September: The Gaskell Society talk by Alison Lundie on Domestic
Arts in Mary Barton and North and South, at 2 pm at Francis Holland School, Graham Terrace, London - visit www.gaskellsociety.co.uk for detail.
14 September:
The Rider Haggard Society holds its Annual Meeting at Ely, with a general theme of the Fens in Haggard's works.
More information from Roger Allen at rb27allen@blueyonder.co.uk.
18 September: The Betjeman Society - Frances Hughes will give a talk at the Swedenborg Hall,
20 Bloomsbury Way, on A Passion for Music Halls, 6.30 for 7pm. Booking essential.
19 September: The
Trollope Society will discuss Castle Richmond, in York, at 6.30 pm. Contact
peter.lee@york.ac.uk.
20 to 23
September: The Jane Austen Society Annual Conference - Jane Austen in Oxfordshire - at Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
For detail go to www.janeaustensoci.freeuk.com/pages/events.htm.
27 to 29 September: the Anthony Powell Society is holding its 7th Biennial Conference at Eton
College, Windsor, Berkshire. Non members welcome. For more detail email conference@anthonypowell.org.
October 2013
8 October: The William Barnes Society is holding
its AGM at the Dorset County Museum, High West Street, Dorchester. Followed by a guided tour of the Literary Gallery
of the Museum by the Director. Contact jill.bryant@virgin.net.
18 - 19 October: The Emile Zola Society 2013 Colloquium at the University of Notre Dame in
London. Visit their website for detail or email 2013zola@gmail.com.
28 October: Poet in the City event exploring the poetry and legacy of Sappho - at Kings Place,
London. Visit their website for detail.
November 2013
1 November:
The Chichester Literary Society AGM and speaker: Colin Wilcockson on Chaucer's Women.
2 November:
The Richard Jefferies Society AGM and birthday lecture from 10.30am to 4.30pm - venue to be announced.
20 November: The Trollope Society will discuss Miss Mackenzie, in
York at 6.30 pm. Contact peter.lee@york.ac.uk.
25 November: Poet
in the City event celebrating the life and work of George Herbert - at Kings Place, London. Visit their website
for detail.
December 2013
|
