From 12th August to 4th November 2024 join Trollope enthusiasts from across the world every second Monday to discuss The Duke’s Children as we read it together on Zoom.

We will be reading the restored text of the first complete edition, which is available in several editions:

• Folio Society, published 2015
• Everyman’s Library, published 2017
• Oxford World’s Classics, published 2021

Concluding talk

On 4th November we are delighted to welcome Professor Dinah Birch who will give the final talk covering the entire book.

Professor Dinah Birch CBE, BA, MA, DPhil, FRSA, FEA

Professor Dinah Birch is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool. She chaired REF2014 Sub-panel 29 (English Literature and Language) and was Deputy Chair of Main Panel D (Arts and Humanities), and Chair of Main Panel D in REF 2021.

Dinah has published widely on Victorian fiction and poetry, and on the work of the critic John Ruskin. Her books include Our Victorian Education (2007), and she is the general editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature (7th ed., 2009). She has published new editions of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford (2011) and Anthony Trollope’s Can You Forgive Her? (2012) and The Small House at Allington (2014) with Oxford University Press. Her interest in prose style is reflected in recent essays on George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and John Ruskin, and she has also published work on the Brontë family and 19c education. She served as a member of the Man Booker prize panel in 2012. She is a regular broadcaster and contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and London Review of Books.

Register free for the complete 2024 BIG READ

You only need to register once, you can then attend any of the 2024 BIG READ Zoom meetings without needing to register again. You can cancel your registration at any time.

• 4 November 2024 – The Duke’s Children, Chapters 69-80
• 18 November 2024 – An Autobiography, Chapters 1-10
• 2 December 2024 – An Autobiography, Chapters 11-20
• 16 December 2024 – Christmas Stories, Story tbc

Click here to register to attend the The Duke’s Children BIG READ Zoom meetings

We will send you an email with instructions on how to join and the password. Using Zoom is easy, just click on the link in the email and follow the instructions. Please note that you will not be able to join the meeting until 8.00pm (UK time) on the day.