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