Miscellany – Literary Readings: Rowan Suart
Miscellany – Literary Readings: Rowan Suart At our Aug 3rd meeting Rowan entertained us with a variety of literary readings, some familiar and others less well known. Her presentation began…
The Social and Political Satire of Gilbert and Sullivan: Bernard Lockett
Bernard Lockett: The Social and Political satire of W.S. Gilbert – our July 2022 talk. Bernard Lockett describes Gilbert and Sullivan operettas as “marmite”. Many of us who love…
Mary Perdita Robinson: Karin Fernald
For our June ’22 meeting Karin gave us a very entertaining and amusing talk on Mary ‘Perdita’ Robinson (1756-1800), who was an author, poet and actress and first…
Virginia Woolf in Richmond: Peter J. Fullagar
Peter Fullagar, author of ‘Virginia Woolf in Richmond’ was our speaker at the May ’22 meeting. He started off by saying he was not originally a fan of the…
The Opening Country: John Micklewright
April 6th 2022 John gave us a very interesting account of his walking journey, which took 10 weeks, through France from Caen to the foothills of Mont Blanc. He embarked…