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

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Now, now that she was older and perhaps wiser, love meant a partnership, in which each partner would be honest to the other, in which each would wish and strive for the other's welfare, so that thus their joint welfare might be insured. Then, in those early girlish days, it had meant a total abnegation of self. The one was of earth, and therefore possible. The other had been a ray from heaven, - and impossible, except in a dream.

Can You Forgive Her?