CALENDAR OF EVENTS 2023
Friday 19 – Monday 22 May
Tennyson Weekend Conference at the Royal Victoria Hotel, Hastings.
Saturday 17 June
Annual General Meeting at 2pm at Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln. followed at 3pm by the Annual Lecture given by Professor Saverio Tomaiuolo, Associate Professor of English at the University of Cassino and Southern Latium in Italy.
Sunday 6 August
Annual Memorial Service at Bag Enderby Church at 3pm. The address will be given by Dr Claudia Capancioni.
Thursday 12 October
Annual Wreath-laying Ceremony at 11:15 a.m. in Westminster Abbey. (Our Lunch at the House of Lords, by kind invitation of our new President, Lord Cormack, has had to be postponed until October 2024, since the House has just announced that its 2023 autumn sitting won’t now begin until 19th October – too late to be combined with this year’s Wreath-laying. The new date for the Lunch will be announced early next year )
Tennyson Talks on Zoom
Thursday 5 October
Professor Matthew Rowlinson: ‘Tennyson’s Disturbances of Memory’
Thursday 2 November
Dr Jayne Thomas: “But such a tide as moving seems asleep”: Tennyson echoing Wordsworth.
Thursday 7 December
Professor Larry Mazzeno: ‘What the Early Feminists did to, and with, Tennyson: A Preliminary Survey’.
The Talks continue into 2024. They are free and joining details are automatically emailed out to all members of the Tennyson Society a few days before each Talk.