59th Session - 2018/2019
Programme
11 September 2018
Frances Ramsden will give the Presidential Address:-
Dorothy Whipple - "What is it like to be a woman? You've got a pattern of a woman in your mind .... "
25 Setember 2018
Patricia Highsmith's Talented Mr. Ripley - Muriel Marrs
9 October 2018
Book reviews
23 October 2018
The Emma poems of Thomas Hardy - elegies written 1912 - 1913 - Alison Wikner
6 November 2018
Jon McGregor - Jill Jabbari
20 November 2018
THE MARION LARGE MEMORIAL LECTURE
Writing for Young Children and Getting Published - Marion Gamble
4 December 2018
Christmas Miscellany
8 January 2019
New Year's party and buffet
22 January 2019
"Loose, baggy monsters"; reinventing Victorian novels for the twenty first century reader - Mary Hoey
5 February 2019
R. S. Thomas - Poet and Priest - Ros McNeill
19 February 2019
Short papers
5 March 2019
"The Death of Bessie Smith" by Edward Albee - Cecile Oxaal
19 March 2019
H. E. Bates 1905 - 1974: A countryman who delighted us all - Sheila Smith
2 April 2019
Annual Dinner
9 April 2019
Annual General Meeting
Summer outing 2018
On a very hot Monday, 16th July, a group of members and a few husbands took a coach trip to Burton Agnes Hall, near Driffield. After coffee, by special arrangement we were greeted by a guide, who gave us a thoroughly enjoyable tour of the house giving us much interesting information about the house and the families owning it. After an excellent lunch everyone was free to explore the extensive grounds and the walled garden.
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58th Session - 2017/2018
Programme
12 September 2017
Frances Ramsden will give the Presidential Address:-
Can you go home again? "The return of the Native" Thomas Hardy
26 Setember 2017
A fresh look at "Old Wives'Tales" Arnold Bennett's masterpiece - Alison Draper
10 October 2017
Book reviews/discussion
24 October 2017
Fathers and daughters in literature - revisited - Rachel Holder
21 November 2017
THE MARION LARGE MEMORIAL LECTURE
A literary journey to the mid-twentieth century in the company of Barbara Euphan Todd, Marghanita Laski and Penelope Mortimer - Sue Kennedy
5 December 2017
Christmas Miscellany
9 January 2018
New Year's party and buffet
23 January 2018
Civilisation or the collapse of a culture? Based on several African novels - Gill Galloway
6 February 2018
La vie en bleu: a colour of meaning in Tracy Chevalier - Catherine Kay
20 February 2018
Short papers
6 March 2018
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee - Sandra Carmichael
20 March 2018
Come for a walk with me - revisited - Sheila Smith
3 April 2018
Annual Dinner
10 April 2018
Annual General Meeting
