Subject Areas
Literature and Creative Writing
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Book Club & Beyond: Doctor Zhivago & The Russian Novel Tuesday 1 May 2018
This famous novel and its equally famous epic film is written in the genre of generations of novels by Russian authors in previous ages but especially...
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The Dillington Book Club Tuesday 5 June 2018
The Dillington Book Club offers an opportunity for all those lovers of literature to meet to discuss a variety of books. The group meets on the first...
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Creative Writing: My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose Tuesday 3 July 2018
This course will explore the manifold moods and expressions of love, that most vital human emotion. We shall study the origins of love poetry including...
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Words, Words Words: A Brief History of the Dictionary Men Wednesday 11 July 2018
Dictionaries and concordances come in all shapes and sizes and are both useful and appealing on many different levels. They cover the meaning of words;...
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The Yellow Wallpaper Wednesday 11 July 2018
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story from 1892 is a powerful exploration of the position of women at the end of the nineteenth century. Seen...
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The Novels of Wilkie Collins Tuesday 17 - Thursday 19 July 2018
Wilkie Collins was a contemporary of Dickens and a hugely successful and prolific novelist. Most famous for ‘The Woman in White’ and ‘The...
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Jane Austen's 'Emma' & 'Sense and Sensibility' Monday 23 - Wednesday 25 July 2018
Jane Austen was greatly attached to her novels, ‘Sense and Sensibility’ and ‘Emma’. Her heroine in ‘Emma’ she described...
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Creative Writing: The River is Within Us, The Sea is All About Us.... Tuesday 21 August 2018
Water covers seventy percent of the surface of our planet earth and is essential to sustain life in all aspects of creation. Scientists believe that...
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