A lovely venue for an AGM.

It's lovely to see all these literary societies' AGMs and festivals taking place in such beautiful places.

Congratulations!

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This book is always topical The Dracula Society

Booking is open until 18 August for our annual conference on theme of Sisterhood and AGM... St Hilda's College 1-3 Sept. Details via barbara-pym.org

A great project that encourages young people across the country to read and love poetry.

The ALS AGM will be May 17-19th 2024 in Bowness, hosted by The Arthur Ransome Society . We suggest you book your accommodation early- it's one of the most beautiful places in the world.

The Parsonage team are saddened to hear of the death of Sinéad O'Connor. O'Connor made her film debut as Emily Brontë in the 1992 adaptation of Wuthering Heights, directed by Peter Kosminsky and starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche. These clippings are from our archive:

This looks like a fascinating book.

Emily Brontë was born on this day in 1818 GU Brontë Society Brontë Parsonage Museum

Calling all walkers! Join us on October 15th for a tour of Dorchester for the Dorchester Literary Festival dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/a-walk-a…

Angela Thirkell (1890-1961) was an English and Australian novelist who was very well connected, related by birth to Rudyard Kipling, Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones and Stanley Baldwin.

A great opportunity to get involved with a fantastic literary society.

Some fantastic summer reading for those rainy days...our new journal is out now and available to all ALS members for free. …anceofliterarysocieties.wordpress.com/the-journal-al…

Sounds amazing!

The ALS is looking for new committee members! Anyone interested in developing the society, supporting events and publicity, behind the scenes admin, social media or just connecting with our members. A few hours each month could go a long, long way. Please DM if that's you.

Oxford Classics do a weekly 'guess the book from it's cover' game every Friday.