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Programme 2007-2008
October 13th 2007
“Samuel Johnson and Satirical Prints.”Sheila O'Connell, FSA (Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum)
November 17th 2007
“Johnson’s Stroke: Understanding of the Brain in the Age of Johnson.”Professor TJ Murray (Dalhousie University)
December 8th 2007
12.00. The Annual Commemoration at Westminster Abbey.
A wreath will be laid on Dr Johnson's grave by Adam Sisman.
12.45 for 1.00 pm at St Ermin's Hotel: the Society's annual lunch.
3.00 pm, St Ermin's Hotel
"Boswell: The Ambiguous Laird."
Adam Sisman
January 12th 2008
“The Wider Range of Knowledge: Johnson and the Adelphi Revisited”Dr David Allan, FSA
February 9th 2008
"Johnson and Anglicanism"
Dr Jane Steen (Canon Chancellor, Southwark Cathedral)
March 8th 2008
"Dancing on Life's Precipice": Mrs Piozzi in Bath"
Karen Fernald
April 12th 2008
“The Dictionary as Watch.”Professor Lynda Mugglestone (Oxford University)
Except in December, meetings take place at Wesley's Chapel, 49 City Road, London, EC1.
(Between Moorgate and Old Street (Exit 4) underground stations.) For a map and detailed directions, click here.
Unless otherwise indicated meetings commence at 2.30 pm.