Society Events (members only)
For further details, please email Activities Secretary Wendy Grierson. Please book early to avoid disappointment, as tickets for many of these events sell out very quickly.
• Eleventh Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture
‘Virginia Woolf’s Short Stories and the Art of Reflection’, by Laura Marcus, 2 pm, Saturday 23 January 2010, Keynes Library, 47 Gordon Square, London WC1, £15.
• Twelfth Annual General Meeting
Saturday 17 April 2010, 2.15 pm, Room 414, Birkbeck College, Torrington Square, London WC1. Following the AGM, Stuart N. Clarke will give a talk on ‘Editing Virginia Woolf’s Essays’.
• Summer Study Day
Between the Acts, Summer Study Day, led by Marion Dell, 10 am–4.30 pm, Saturday 3 July 2010, Pitman Room, Imperial Hotel, Russell Square, London WC1, £30. Edition to be used: Oxford World's Classics, ed Frank Kermode (ISBN 978 0 19 953657 3), £6.99.
• Virginia Woolf goes to Oxford
A residential programme of seminars led by David Bradshaw at Worcester College, Oxford, Thursday 9–Sunday 12 September 2010. Cost: £399 per person including bed & breakfast at Worcester College for the three nights and also two evening meals. Maximum of 25 delegates. See the booking form enclosed with the 2009 mailing of this Bulletin to Members. For enquiries contact Stephen Barkway, 106 Gloucester Road, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey KT1 3QN; email: sbarkway@btinternet.com
• Virginia Woolf Society Reading Group
The Reading Group meets every two months or so, on a Saturday afternoon at Jacques café in the Tavistock Hotel in Bloomsbury. For the next meeting, please contact Sarah M. Hall.
Other Events
• Monks House, Rodmell
Open 1 April to 31 October 2009, Wed and Sat, 2.00–5.30 pm. £3.80 admission, child £1.90, family £9.50. Reduction for groups, but if 10 or more, please book at least 4 weeks in advance. Phone: 01323 870 001 (c/o Alfriston Clergy House), or see the National Trust web page.
• 'G. F. Watts: Victorian Visionary'
Highlights from the Watts Gallery Collection, Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, 14 November 2009– 21 March 2010.
• MLA Conference
Philadelphia, 27–30 December 2009. Contact: bkscott@mail.sdsu or Bonnie Kime Scott, President IVWS, Dept. of Women’s Studies, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182-6030, USA.
For events at Charleston Farmhouse, including the Charleston Festival held every May, tel. 01323 811 626 or see
www.charleston.org.uk/whatson
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