The Bertrams

Concluding Talk

23rd March at 8pm (UK)

Join Dr Nicholas Shrimpton for the concluding talk of our BIG READ of The Bertrams

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Young Victorian man looking out of a window in Jerusalem

Anthony Trollope was one of the most successful, prolific and respected novelists of the Victorian era.

His perceptive novels remain relevant today, and his reputation continues to grow with each passing year.

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Last days are wretched days; and so are last moments wretched moments. It is not the fact that the parting is coming which makes these days and moments so wretched but the feeling that something special is expected from them.

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The dream of youth becomes the doubt of middle life, and then the despair of age.

The Bertrams