Austen Sisters
Despite the heat there was a good attendance at our July meeting, for Rowan Suart’s presentation on the Austen Sisters. Rowan started by saying that Jane Austen was very proud…
Thomas Coryat: Jeremy Tomlinson
Jeremy’s talk on Wednesday 5thJune was both learned and entertaining. His subject was that astonishing early seventeenth century traveller, Thomas Coryate, the self-styled “Oddcombe Legge-Stretcher,”author of the famous Coryat’s Crudities(1611). Odcombe…
Page to Screen – Literary Bio-Pics
On May 1st Ellen Cheshire took us on a fascinating journey through the many films that have been made on the lives of writers from Shakespeare to Dickens and the…
Speaking Volumes
Speaking Volumes – Audio-books : Gordon Griffin Gordon gave us a very entertaining talk on his work with audio-books describing how a young Geordie lad from Byker came, in…
Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes to the Cottingley Fairies
On Wednesday 6th February Professor Douglas Kerr (author of Conan Doyle. Writing, Profession, and Practice) gave a wide-ranging and entertaining talk on that prodigious whirlwind of contradictions, Sir Arthur Conan…