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Programme 2008-2009
Johnson Society wreath-laying and annual lunch, 13 December 2008
Unfortunately, Dr Gordon Turnbull, who was to have been the speaker at this year’s lunch, has had to withdraw, owing to ill health. We wish him a full recovery.
We are very grateful to Professor Peter Sabor, who has agreed to lay the wreath and to give the Richard Thrale Memorial Lecture on this occasion. Professor Sabor is Director of the Burney Centre and Canada Research Chair in Eighteenth Century Studies at McGill University.
The wreath-laying will take place at Westminster Abbey at 12:00. The annual lunch will take place at 1:00 at the Jolly Hotel St Ermin’s, following which Professor Sabor will deliver his lecture “United in one performance: Samuel Johnson and Fanny Burney”.
Please use this booking form to secure your place. Note that reservations must be made by 15 November 2008.
11 October 2008
The Autobiographies of Johnson
Professor David Nokes (King’s College’ London)
15 November 2008
Dr Johnson and Tea
Stephanie Pickford (Curator, Dr Johnson’s House)
13 December 2008
12.00. The Annual Commemoration at Westminster Abbey.
A wreath will be laid on Dr Johnson's grave by Professor Peter Sabor
12.45 for 1.00 pm at St Ermin’s Hotel: the Society's annual lunch.
3.00 pm, St Ermin’s Hotel
“United in one performance: Samuel Johnson and Fanny Burney”
Professor Peter Sabor
Please use this booking form to secure your place. Note that reservations must be made by 15 November 2008.
10 January 2009
The rise and fall of Catherine Macaulay
Dr Lucy Peltz (Eighteenth Century Curator, National Portrait Gallery)
14 February 2009
Arthur Murphy and Samuel Johnson: a case of intellectual affinityDr Garry Headland
14 March 2009
‘Slow rises worth by poverty depress’d: Johnson comes to London’.
Professor Peter Martin
4 April 2009
‘The present hour alone is man’s’: Johnson’s poetry and the redemption of time
Dr Ken Smith (University of Bradford)
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.