Chichester Literary Society

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Next Meeting

Wed 4 November

Wilkie Collins Rambles

Beyond Railways

Presented by Dr Christopher Pittard

 

 

Membership Details 2026  £50 p.a. No increase for 2026!

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Visitors/Non-members £8

On the door.

Students £3 on the door.

 

Meeting Venue

Boxgrove Village Hall,

PO18 OEE

Large free car park and a bus stop at the venue.

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https://www.stagecoachbus.com/promos-and-offers/south/chichester-services

Details

Wed November 4

2pm

  Wilkie Collins Rambles

Beyond Railways

Presented by Dr Christopher Pittard

Dr Christopher Pittard

 

This talk looks at the Victorian sensation novelist Wilkie Collins, in particular his visit to Cornwall in 1850 with the artist Henry Branding, the notes from which he published the following year as Rambles Beyond Railways. Dr Pittard will cover Collins’ representation of Cornwall including his visits to  St Michael’s Mount and Bodmin Moor.

 

 

See below Photos and reports (Journal/Talks page)  Bill Alder with Brian French (June)  and John Robert Smith (Sept. meeting)

Local Literary News and Events

New book shop in South St. Chichester!

Open Mic Poetry Chichester

For more information please go to the website below.

Guest poets launch each session followed by an open mic. Listeners equally welcome. 7.30pm

 JUBILEE HALL, NEW PARK CENTRE, CHICHESTER, PO19 7XY.

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
Jean Rhys
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
Carl Sagan
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.The man who never reads lives only one.
George R.R. Martin
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Mary Wortley Montague.

We welcome old and new members and visitors to Boxgrove Village Hall.

Bill Alder with Brian French - June '26