WRITERS AND NOVELS IN HISTORY

Tutor: Ray Sutton

Evington House, Cordery Road Tuesday afternoons, 2pm – 3.30pm Admission £2 per session attended. No prior enrolment needed.

The programme for the Autumn Term is as follows:

14 Oct Ernest Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War

21 Oct Arnold Bennett, literary lion of the Potteries

28 Oct Writers and poets of the Americal South, 1850-1939

4 Nov 1940: The Battle of Britain and children's literature

11 Nov Women's Fiction of the Second World War: Olivia Manning and the ‘Balkan Trilogy'

18 Nov Emile Zola: a 19 th century Bourgeois Rebel

25 Nov Joseph Conrad and The Secret Agent

2 Dec Scarlet's Women: Gone with the Wind ad and its female fans

9 Dec Charles Dickens and the Christmas stories