Calendar for the Angela Thirkell Society
Dates for 2010
Regional Meetings:
East Anglia: No date set as yet. Would anyone interested in attending a meeting please contact Sarah Preston
Ireland: Saturday 27th March: Meeting at Ruth Blackith's, to discuss Trooper to the Southern Cross. Email Ruth.
Sussex and Borders: Saturday 27 March: Meeting at Haywards Heath, to discuss Love Among the Ruins. Email secretary for details.
West Midlands: No date set as yet.
Wirral: No longer meeting.
Yorkshire: Monday 22nd February: Meeting at the Yorkshire Hotel, Harrogate, 12 noon. Contact Valerie Ramsden, 0113 258 2241
Summer Outings:
Saturday 8 May: Visit to Rottingdean, celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the Society's foundation.
Dinner, overnight stay in Hove if required.
Sunday 9 May: Optional visit to Batemans, home of Rudyard Kipling, Angela Thirkell's Cousin Ruddy.
Annual General Meeting:
26th September: St Paul's Church, Robert Adam Street, London W1, followed by buffet lunch and a talk.
Former AGMs have included:
Weekend in York with visit to Castle Howard and talk by June Cox on Real or Imagined People and Places in Angela Thirkell's Novels. (2001)
Unpublished extracts from Enter Sir Robert. (2002)
The Days of Creation - reading of poems by AT Society member Hilary Freeman inspired by Sir Edward Burne-Jones's paintings. (2003)
Angela's War and Ours - Penny Aldred and June Cox compared and contrasted family diaries with the wartime novels of Angela Thirkell, later repeated for the North American Branch meeting in Richmond, Virginia. (2004)
Angela Thirkell's Australian years, by Australian-born literary landscape researcher and AT Society member Geraldine Perriam (2005)
Reminiscences of Angela Thirkell by her daughter-in-law Kate Thirkell. (2006)
Angela, the Church of England, and God?, by Geoffrey Cox. (2007)
The history of the Women's Institute and its portrayal in the novels of Angela Thirkell, by Edith Fearn. (2008)
The Wartime novels of Angela Thirkell, Dr Kate Macdonald of the University of Ghent. (2009)