on : Saturday February 4th, 2012

LONDON SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: Trollope and the Rights of Authors
Introduced by: Barbara Lauriat


If you are interested in attending and require further details, please contact Martin Chown at martin.chown@cantab.net

SCOTTISH SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: Ayala's Angel
Introduced by: David Corner

Venue: The Friends' Meeting House, Edinburgh

If you are interested in attending and require further details, please contact John Dover at johnhd39@me.com.

NORTH WEST SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: Dr Whortle's School
Introduced by: Jackie Stevenson

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.

OXFORD SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: Orley Farm
Introduced by: Jennifer Sugden

Venue: the Old Library at St Edmund Hall, Queens Lane, Oxford OX1 4AR

If you are interested in attending and require further details, please contact Roger Harvey at hrogerharvey@aol.com.

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, DEPARTMENT OF CONTINUING EDUCATION

Subject: Victorian Fiction
Venue: Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford

This course includes a lecture by Dr Nicholas Shrimpton on The Warden.

If you are interested in attending, further details can be obtained from this link.

YORK SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: Cousin Henry
Introduced by: Keith Jones

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.

OXFORD LITERARY FESTIVAL

There will be Trollope afternoon at the Oxford Literary Festival in the Queen's new lecture theatre.

The programme will be:

2pm- 3pm: Session 1 - Trollope, Women, and Love
3pm-3.45pm: Tea
3.45pm-4.45pm: Session 2 - Trollope, Politics, and the Press
5pm-6pm: Session 3 - Trollope and Conflict
6-7pm: Reception

The OUP editors who will be making up the panel are:

Dinah Birch
Helen Small
Nick Shrimpton
John Bowen

Full details are given in this document.

CAMBRIDGE SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: Dr Thorne
Introduced by: to be announced

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

SCOTTISH SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: La Vendee
Introduced by: David Marwick

Venue: The Friends' Meeting House, Edinburgh

If you are interested in attending and require further details, please contact John Dover at johnhd39@me.com.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

The Trollope Society will be holding an "event" on Sunday, 22nd April which will take place at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and will run from 2.00 pm until 6.00 pm, including High Tea. Final details are still being agreed but it is by way of being a celebration of Anthony Trollope’s birthday and the entertainment will include readings and presentations.

Further details will be given in the next mailing accompanying Trollopiana 91 to be issued in February

The Annual Dinner will be held on alternate years from now on, with 2013 the next one and a major celebration in 2015 to coincide with AT's bicentenary.

CITY OF LONDON LIBRARIES: GUILDHALL LIBRAY

A Lecture on "Theatrical Characters: Martin Chuzzlewit and Orley Farm; Dickens and Anthony Trollope; Browne and John Everett Millais"

The lecture is free, but you must book in advance.

Full details are given on the City of London Libraries' website.

NORTH WEST SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: The Struggles of Brown, Jones and Robinson
Introduced by: Rosalind Penny and Frances Huggett

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.

SCOTTISH SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: tba
Introduced by: tba

Venue: The Friends' Meeting House, Edinburgh

If you are interested in attending and require further details, please contact John Dover at johnhd39@me.com.

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

SCOTTISH SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: tba
Introduced by: tba

Venue: The Friends' Meeting House, Edinburgh

If you are interested in attending and require further details, please contact John Dover at johnhd39@me.com.

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

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: tba
Introduced by: tba

Venue: The Friends' Meeting House, Edinburgh

If you are interested in attending and require further details, please contact John Dover at johnhd39@me.com.

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.