Mondays at 1.50 pm
The Literary Society, open to HMSG as well as MS, aims to broaden Sixth Formers’ literary knowledge and cultural understanding, as well as accustom them to the lecture style.
Our opening lecture this year on Monday 3rd October is from Tania Hershman, a science journalist and novelist/short-story writer who will be speaking about the inspiration of science within literature.
Future lectures will cover Milton’s Comus, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Samuel Johnson and some contemporary Drama.
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Date |
Text |
Speaker |
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Monday 3rd October 2011 |
Literature Inspired by Science |
Tania Hershman Novelist and science journalist |
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7th November 2011 |
Comus, Milton |
L R Livingston |
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5th December 2011 |
Shakespeare |
G S Lee |
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January 2012 |
Emily Dickinson |
S N White |
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February 2012 |
Samuel Johnson: from the Dictionary to Rasselas |
L R Livingston |
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March 2012 |
Contemporary drama |
P M Griffin |