The reading group has continued busily since September 2008 reading a range of books including The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals by Dorothy Wordsworth and The Wanderer by Frances Burney. As a slight departure, the final book of the 2009-2010 season will be Elizabeth’s Gaskell’s Ruth because 2010 is the bicentennial anniversary of Elizabeth Gaskell’s birth and she had local connections, owning a house, The Lawns, in Holybourne, Alton.
18 May 2009 The Last Man by Mary Shelley
Summer break from June 2009 – August 2009
21 September 2009 A Simple Story (1791) by Elizabeth Inchbald
19 October 2009 Letters written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796) by Mary Wollstonecraft
16 November 2009 Millenium Hall (1762) by Sarah Scott
21 December 2009 The Sylph (1779) by Georgiana Cavendish Devonshire
18 January 2010 The History of Mary Prince: a West Indian Slave (1831) by Mary Prince
15 February 2010 Oroonoko: or the history of the royal slave (1688) by Aphra Behn
15 March 2010 Coelebs in search of a wife: comprehending observations on domestic habits and manners, religion and morals (1809) by Hannah More
19 April 2010 The Wonder (1714) by Susannah Centlivre
17 May 2010 Ruth (1853) by Elizabeth Gaskell.
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