on : Sunday May 5th 2013

CAMBRIDGE SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: The Macdermots of Ballycloran

Venue: 19, Sedley Taylor Rd

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

SCOTTISH SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: Belton Estate
Introduced by: David Marwick

Venue: Friends Meeting House 7 Victoria Terrace Edinburgh EH1 2JL

If you are interested in attending and require further details, please contact John Dover at jdover@post.harvard.edu.

NORTH WEST SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: La Vendée
Introduced by: Group Discussion

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


The 2013 Residential Course on Anthony Trollope will take place at Wansfell College, 30 Piercing Hill, Epping, Essex CM16 7LF. Telephone 01992 813027. The main topics will be Miss Mackenzie and The Claverings

Please put a note in your diaries.

If you are interested in attending and require further details, please contact Marilyn Taylor at johnmarilyn2000@yahoo.co.uk

YORK SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: Barchester Towers
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: Miss Mackenzie
Introduced by: Hilary Vandore

Venue: Friends Meeting House 7 Victoria Terrace Edinburgh EH1 2JL

If you are interested in attending and require further details, please contact John Dover at jdover@post.harvard.edu.

NORTH WEST SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: Castle Richmond
Introduced by: Group Discussion

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.

CAMBRIDGE SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: The Kellys and the O'Kellys

Venue: 19, Sedley Taylor Rd

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

LONDON SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: An Autobiography – revelation and concealment

Introduced by: Tom Rawcliffe

Venue: St Giles-in-the Fields, 60 St Giles High Street, London WC2H 8LG

Apart from the Autobiography which is the subject of this talk, it would be useful to have read Victoria Glendinning's book on Anthony Trollope.
Matters which are dealt with fully in the Autobiography, such as his schooldays, his post office work, and particularly his writing will be discussed but in addition mention will be made of matters which he glosses over. His marriage is a notable example, which Glendinning does discuss.

If you are interested in coming it would be helpful to let Martin Chown know at martin.chown@cantab.net.

SCOTTISH SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: Kept in the Dark
Introduced by: Aubrey Manning

Venue: Friends Meeting House 7 Victoria Terrace Edinburgh EH1 2JL

If you are interested in attending and require further details, please contact John Dover at jdover@post.harvard.edu.

TROLLOPE SOCIETY
TWENTY SIXTH ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING AND ANNUAL
LECTURE

will take place at the National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2HE

Folowing the AGM, the twenty sixth Annual Lecture was given by Alex Preston, entitled ‘THE WAY WE LIVED THEN AND NOW’

This lecture will look at the importance and relevance of Trollope to modern exponents of the State of the Nation Novel, from Sebastian Faulks to John Lanchester to Amanda Craig. ‘The Way We Live Now’ is regularly cited as the model for attempts to address the post-financial crisis nation – what is the novel’s enduring appeal and what lessons can we learn from Trollope with which to address the Britain of 2013?
Alex Preston is a bestselling novelist and journalist. His first book, ‘This Bleeding City’, won the Spear’s and Edinburgh Festival best first book awards. His second, ‘The Revelations’ was published by Faber and Faber in 2012. He is a panellist on BBC2’s ‘The Review Show’ and Radio 4’s ‘Saturday Review’ and writes regularly for the Observer and the New Statesman. He is the wicketkeeper/batsman for the Author’s Cricket Club whose book, ‘From Hackney to Hambledon’ will be published by Bloomsbury this summer.

SCOTTISH SEMINAR GROUP

Subject: Cousin Henry
Introduced by: David Corner

Venue: Friends Meeting House 7 Victoria Terrace Edinburgh EH1 2JL

If you are interested in attending and require further details, please contact John Dover at jdover@post.harvard.edu.

TROLLOPE SOCIETY TOUR OF AUSTRALIA

The Trollope Society is planning a two week trip to Australia to visit sites frequented by Anthony Trollope on his travels there on his first trip in 1871-1872 and again four years later.


A full itinerary for the trip can be downloaded by clicking on this link together with a reservation form and further details

If you are interested in attending and require further details, please contact the tour organiser Susannah Fullerton at fullerto@bigpond.net.au

TROLLOPE SOCIETY
TWENTY FOURTH TROLLOPE SOCIETY DINNER

The 24th Trollope Society Dinner was held in the formal Dining Room of the House of Lords under the kind sponsorship of Lord Cormack. Speakers were the host, Lord Cormack, the Trollope Society Chairman, Michael Williamson, and the Bishop of Gibralter, the Right Rev Geoffrey Rowell.

The speeches will be reproduced in the next issue of Trollopiana.

TROLLOPE SOCIETY
TWENTY FIFTH ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING AND ANNUAL
LECTURE

took place at the National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2HE

Folowing the AGM, the twenty fifth Annual Lecture was be given by Julian Stray, Assistant Curator and Postal Historian at the British Postal Museum and Archive. Further details are available from this link and the full lecture will be published in the next edition of Trollopiana.

LOWEWOOD MUSEUM

The Launch took place of the Trollope Collection.

The Lowewood Museum is situated in the High Street in Hoddesdon, Herts, on the old coaching route. It is housed in a Georgian/Victorian House with an old letter box outside. It is the nearest Museum to the site of Waltham House, Waltham Cross where Anthony Trollope lived for 12 years between 1859 and 1871, and where he wrote twenty-six novels.
The Museum holds many old photographs of the house which was demolished in 1936.

The Trollope Society have loaned its valuable archive of Anthony Trollope (first and later) editions to the Museum for an initial three year period.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

The Trollope Society held an "event" on Sunday, 22nd April at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden by way of being a celebration of Anthony Trollope’s birthday. The entertainment included readings and presentations.

Pictures of the event can be seen from this link. Covent Garden Photos.

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.