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Event Category: Literature

Reading 1960: Barstow, Reid-Banks & Amis

27/09/2022 am – 18/10/2022 am
  • Venue: Friends Meeting House
  • Categories: Literature

Join us in discussing three short novels published in 1960. We’ll begin with The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid-Banks, a novel that looks back to the 1950s. For the second session we’ll consider Take a Girl Like You, by Kingsley Amis. For the … More details …

Philip Larkin, The Early Years (A Centenary Celebration)

01/10/2022 10:30 am – 4:30 pm
  • Venue: Friends Meeting House
  • Categories: Day course, Literature, Poetry

2022 marks the centenary of Philip Larkin’s birth. This dayschool offers a chance to explore and possibly reassess some of his earlier poetry, most notably in the volume that brought him to the attention of a wider audience, The Less … More details …

1922 – a year of challenge and change

01/11/2022 am – 06/12/2022 am
  • Venue: Friends Meeting House
  • Categories: Literature

A hundred years ago saw the publication of Ulysses by James Joyce, and T S Eliot’s The Waste Land. It was also a year when modernist poets such as Rilke, Paul Valery and Wallace Stevens produced important works. Both among … More details …

Edith Wharton – selected novels

11/11/2022 am – 16/12/2022 am
  • Venue: Friends Meeting House
  • Categories: Literature

This six week course will look at two novels by the American novelist Edith Wharton.   We will start with her 1913 novel The Custom of the Country (1913) with its depiction of the social climbing Undine Spragg (weeks 1 – … More details …

The Mature Larkin: The Whitsun Weddings (1964) and High Windows (1974)

01/12/2022 10:30 am – 4:30 pm
  • Venue: Friends Meeting House
  • Categories: Day course, Literature, Poetry

This dayschool will focus on the two volumes that cemented Philip Larkin’s reputation as a poet whose work would continue to be read for years to come. Starting with the title poem from The Whitsun Weddings, we shall discuss how … More details …

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Coming up

  • Reading 1960: Barstow, Reid-Banks & Amis on 27/09/2022 10:30 am
  • Liberalism to Fascism: Mussolini’s Italy 1922-43 on 28/09/2022 10:30 am
  • Philip Larkin, The Early Years (A Centenary Celebration) on 01/10/2022 10:30 am
  • The Creation: JF Haydn on 08/10/2022 10:30 am
  • History of Architecture in Britain – Medieval to Neoclassical on 20/10/2022 10:30 am
  • 1922 – a year of challenge and change on 01/11/2022 10:30 am
  • Christmas Card Workshop on 05/11/2022 10:30 am
  • Edith Wharton – selected novels on 11/11/2022 10:30 am
  • Money: A Global History on 12/11/2022 10:30 am
  • Fabric stained glass on 19/11/2022 10:30 am
  • Eric Ravilious: His Life and Art on 26/11/2022 10:30 am
  • The Mature Larkin: The Whitsun Weddings (1964) and High Windows (1974) on 01/12/2022 10:30 am
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