on : Monday May 21st, 2012

CAMBRIDGE SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: Little Dorrit

Venue: 19, Sedley Taylor Rd

To acknowledge the bi-centenary of Charles Dickens we will take the opportunity of comparing Mr Merdle and his family with the Melmottes in ‘The Way We Live Now’ which will have been discussed on April 1st.

If you are interested in attending and require further details, please contact Michael Williamson at michael@thecleeve.freeserve.co.uk

NORTH WEST SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: Is He Popenjoy?
Introduced by: Tony Gick

Venue: The Friends' Meeting House, Manchester

If you are interested in attending and require further details, please contact Jean Ammar at j.ammar@hotmail.co.uk.

WANSFELL COLLEGE

Subject: "Beyond the Pale", The Belton Estate and The Vicar of Bulhampton
Lecturer: Howard Gregg

If you are interested in attending and require further details, please contact Marilyn Taylor at johnmarilyn2000@yahoo.co.uk

YORK SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: The Kellys and the O'Kellys
Introduced by: tba

Venue: The Friends' Meeting House, Friargate, York

If you are interested in attending and require further details, please contact Peter Lee at peter.lee@york.ac.uk.

LONDON SEMINAR GROUP

A morning walk in Barnet

Provisional arrangement – meet at High Barnet tube station at 10:30am. Cost £10.
This walk follows the London seminar on May 17th

Join us on a walk through Barnet, and the beautiful Georgian village of Monken Hadley, in Trollope's footsteps. Trollope knew Hadley extremely well. His mother lived in a fine Georgian house in the village in the 1830s, and he spent a great deal of time there himself. His sister Emily died there. More than 20 years later, he set several scenes from The Bertrams in Hadley.

We'll see Grandon House, and many of the scenes described in The Bertrams: from the church and churchyard, where his sister lies buried, to the path through the churchyard leading to Monken Hadley Common lovingly described in the book. Trollope describes cricket being played on the Common -- it's still played there today, as we'll see. We'll also walk in the footsteps of his great contemporaries, Dickens and Thackeray, who both knew Monken Hadley and Barnet well -- and we'll hear how one of the most famous scenes in English literature was perhaps born in Barnet.

Even though the walk is some time away, it would help Martin Chown to have an early idea of numbers. So if you are interested, please let him know even if plans not firm yet by contacting Martin Chown at martin.chown@cantab.net.

SCOTTISH SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: Marion Fay
Introduced by: Owen Dudley Edwards

Venue: The Friends' Meeting House, Edinburgh

If you are interested in attending and require further details, please contact John Dover at jdover@post.harvard.edu.

NORTH WEST SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: The Three Clerks
Introduced by: Jean Ammar

Venue: The Friends' Meeting House, Manchester

If you are interested in attending and require further details, please contact Jean Ammar at j.ammar@hotmail.co.uk.

CAMBRIDGE SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: Dr Thorne

Venue: 19, Sedley Taylor Rd

If you are interested in attending and require further details, please contact Michael Williamson at michael@thecleeve.freeserve.co.uk

THIRD ANTHONY TROLLOPE INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL

Location: Drumsna


If you are interested in attending and require further details, please contact Pamela Morgan at pamelamrgn@aol.com

YORK SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: The Golden Lion of Granpère
Introduced by: tba

Venue: The Friends' Meeting House, Friargate, York

If you are interested in attending and require further details, please contact Peter Lee at peter.lee@york.ac.uk.

NORTH WEST SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: He Knew He Was Right
Introduced by: Themes of the Novel, Group Discussion

Venue: The Friends' Meeting House, Manchester

If you are interested in attending and require further details, please contact Jean Ammar at j.ammar@hotmail.co.uk.

SCOTTISH SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: Rachel Ray
Introduced by: Clare Munn

Venue: The Friends' Meeting House, Edinburgh

If you are interested in attending and require further details, please contact John Dover at jdover@post.harvard.edu.

WANSFELL COLLEGE

Subject: "Dark Satanic Mills", Michael Armstrong (Fanny Trollope) and Mary Barton (Elizabeth Gaskell)
Lecturer: Howard Gregg

If you are interested in attending and require further details, please contact Marilyn Taylor at johnmarilyn2000@yahoo.co.uk

NORTH WEST SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: An Autobiography
Introduced by: Rosalind Penny

Venue: The Friends' Meeting House, Manchester

If you are interested in attending and require further details, please contact Jean Ammar at j.ammar@hotmail.co.uk.

TROLLOPE SOCIETY
TWENTY FIFTH ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING AND ANNUAL
LECTURE

will take place at the National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2HE

Folowing the AGM, the twenty fifth Annual Lecture will be given by Julian Stray, Assistant Curator and Postal Historian at the British Postal Museum and Archive. Further details are available from this link.

SCOTTISH SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: The Bertrams
Introduced by: Aubrey Manning

Venue: The Friends' Meeting House, Edinburgh

If you are interested in attending and require further details, please contact John Dover at jdover@post.harvard.edu.

NORTH WEST SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: Mr Scarborough's Family
Introduced by: Terry Hill

Venue: The Friends' Meeting House, Manchester

If you are interested in attending and require further details, please contact Jean Ammar at j.ammar@hotmail.co.uk.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

The Trollope Society held an "event" on Sunday, 22nd April at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden by way of being a celebration of Anthony Trollope’s birthday. The entertainment included readings and presentations.

Pictures of the event can be seen from this link. Covent Garden Photos.

TROLLOPE SOCIETY
TWENTY FOURTH ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING AND ANNUAL
LECTURE

took place at the National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2HE

Folowing the AGM, the twenty fourth Annual Lecture was given by Dr Nigel Starck, Offshore Program Director : School of Communication, International Studies and Languages, University of South Australia.

on: Anthony Trollope’s Australian Odyssey
An illustrated lecture on Trollope’s travels in Australia

The meeting was followed by a buffet supper.

TROLLOPE SOCIETY
TWENTY THIRD ANNUAL DINNER

The Dinner was held in the Mountbatten Room of the Royal Automoble Club, Pall Mall when a total of eighty members and guests heard our Chairman, Michael Williamson propose the toast to the guests with a brief discussion of Barchester Pilgramage by Ronald Knox. Hilary Clare of the Thirkell Society spoke on ‘Angela Thirkell and Anthony Trollope’ and the distinguished actor, Clive Swift, who played Bishop Proudie in the much loved BBC production of the Barchester Chronicles spoke on his experience in playing Trollopian roles and proposed the toast to the Society.

TROLLOPE SOCIETY
TWENTY THIRD ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING AND ANNUAL
LECTURE

took place at the National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2HE

Folowing the AGM, the twenty third Annual Lecture was given by Professor David Skilton, Research Professor in English, Cardiff University.

Subject: ‘Millais illustrates Trollope : Words and Images which read each other’
An illustrated lecture on Millais’s wood engravings for Trollope’s Novels.

The meeting was followed by a buffet supper.

A full account of the lecture will be given in the next edition of Trollopiana. The illustrations used in the talk can be accessed from this link

TROLLOPE SOCIETY
TWENTY SECOND ANNUAL DINNER

took place at the Tallow Chandlers' Hall. Our speakers were Geoff Hales and Teresa Ransom.
A full report will be given in the next issue of Trollopiana
Pictures of the event can be seen from this link. Annual Dinner Photos.