A Special Evening of Live Readings 6-7.15pm, 13 May, Letters from the Life of Julia Margaret Cameron The Colin Ford Lecture 2024, Bodleian Library, Oxford Despite the title, there will be no lecture by Colin Ford CBE – or anyone else! Instead this illuminating and entertaining free event… Read More »Letters from the Life of Julia Margaret Cameron:
The Tennyson Society’s Annual Wreath-laying Ceremony will be at noon on 12 October at Westminster Abbey. The event marks Tennyson’s death in October 1892. Lunch at a nearby restaurant will follow the event. For more details, please contact Dr. Marion Sherwood, mfs@letterbox.me.uk
Tennyson Annual Weekend Friday 17th May until Monday 20th May 2024 Dear Tennyson Society Member, Next year’s annual Tennyson weekend will be from Friday 17th May until Monday 20th May 2024., on the theme of ‘Tennyson and Women‘.We will explore Elizabeth Russell’s (Tennyson’s aunt’s) castle… Read More »Tennyson Annual Weekend 2024
Max Beerbohm (1872–1956) Oscar WildePencil on paper, undatedGeorge Arents Collection, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lennox and Tilden Foundations The New York Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Gallery Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY October 20,… Read More »Max Beerbohm: The Price of Celebrity
CALENDAR OF EVENTS 2023 Annual General Meeting at 2pm at Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln. followed at 2pm by the Annual Lecture given by Professor Saverio Tomaiuolo, Associate Professor of English at the University of Cassino and Southern Latium in Italy.
Our Annual Weekend Conference will take place in Hastings, East Sussex, from 19 – 22 May. We will be based at the Royal Victoria Hotel on the seafront, where the young Princess Victoria stayed (her signature is in the Visitors’ Book), and will visit the… Read More »TENNYSON SOCIETY WEEKEND 2023
October 2022 – March 2023 TENNYSON TALKS on Zoom – October 2022 – March 2023 Thursday evenings 7.30pm London time.OCTOBER 6 Linda K. Hughes‘The Elegies of Tennyson and Michael Field: Reclaiming and Transcending Loved Remains’. NOVEMBER 3 Erik Gray ‘Tennyson and Sappho Revisited’DECEMBER 1 Michelle Geric ‘”Wander[er] on a darkened earth”:… Read More »TENNYSON TALKS on Zoom