Calendar for the Angela Thirkell Society
Dates for 2011
Regional Meetings:
East Anglia: No date set as yet. Would anyone interested in attending a meeting please contact Sarah Preston
Ireland: Saturday 13th August, at Mary's, 33 Morehampton Terrace, to discuss August Folly.
Sussex and Borders: Saturday 15th October 11 a.m.: Meeting at Thelma Bignell's, 18 Glynde Avenue, Goring-by-Sea, BN12 5BH, to discuss Marling Hall. Contact Thelma on 01903 244112. Please bring a contribution for lunch.
Sussex and Borders: Saturday 10th December: A Pre-Christmas get-together at the home of Shirley Olivier, The Coach House, Eaton Road, Hove, BN3 3PP. Contact Shirley at 01273 772097.
West Midlands: Saturday 8th October 12 noon, at the home of Jill Ashmore, 19 Redfern Road, Stone, Staffs, ST15 0LF, to discuss August Folly. Bring and share lunch. Enquiries to Jill on 01785 616433.
Yorkshire: Monday 10th October 12 noon: Meeting at Yorkshire Hotel, Harrogate, to compare a Thirkell novel with that of a contemporary set in the same year. Contact Valerie Ramsden, 0113 258 2241
Summer Outings:
Annual General Meeting:
24th September 2011: St Paul's Church, Robert Adam Street, London W1, followed by buffet lunch and a talk. This year's talk will by Dr. Kate Macdonald on "What the critics missed and what they don't say about Angela Thirkell"
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Unpublished extracts from Enter Sir Robert.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)
Angela' Legacy, Valerie Ramsden. (2010)