A Life in Crime: William Shaw
On June 5, 2024 William Shaw entertained us with his talk “A Life in Crime.” Is genre fiction ‘literary’? Can crime fiction ever be proper ‘literature’? Some well-read people turn…
On June 5, 2024 William Shaw entertained us with his talk “A Life in Crime.” Is genre fiction ‘literary’? Can crime fiction ever be proper ‘literature’? Some well-read people turn…
At our May ’24 meeting Caroline gave us a very entertaining presentation on Nursery Rhymes of London Town and its author Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965). The book was published in 1916…
Mountains and Rivers Without End: two millennia of classical Chinese poetry Starting with the work of that eminent late Victorian sinologist, Professor Herbert Allen Giles, Kevin Maynard contrasted this scholar’s…
Looking for William: Aspects of William Shakespeare Saturday 15 June Boxgrove Village Hall, PO18 OEE Shakespeare Day Programme 10:00: Simon Brett – Introduction and welcome. 10:15: Dr Duncan Salkeld –…
Barmy in Wonderland Lewis Carroll and P. G. Wodehouse – Sarah Stanfield. March ’24. Sarah gave us substantial biographical information on Carroll (1832-1898) and Wodehouse (1881-1975) and drew attention to…