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First Meeting for Kent
Hi Folks,
We had our first Reading Detective meeting at Tonbridge Library yesterday. The team has an impressive range of interests and a great age span with a wide knowledge about all sorts of literary heritage and tastes which was great! We had a great discussion on the Jane Austen portrait which was very thought provoking and interesting. The team seems to be off to a great start and no doubt will uncover some fabulous finds along the way. If you would like to join the group we are meeting next on the 3rd of September 10.30 Tonbridge Library Local Studies when The group will be Looking for 'Hidden Gems' that are usually behind glass!Mallika Bhaduri, Customer Service Development Librarian and Rob Illingworth, Service Development Librarian will be throwing open the glass doors to help the literary sleuths find local treasures. The Team will also discuss their findings from the previous meeting.Come along and join in the fun!
13 August 2009 from Michelle
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Finds
- Pangbourne - a love affair with a gorilla
- Out of the Blue by Val Rutt
- The Kent Factor
- Grubby Tales from Beardy Ardagh
- The Men of Kent March On
- The Curse of Aphis Minimus
- One True Crime
- Why Pick Lydden?
- From Maidstone Prison to the Wide Sargasso Sea!
- Dover- Life's a Beach
- The ideal home
- The Tramping Methodist - more tramping in Kent!
- The Small Years by Frank Kendon
- Everyone Loves Rupert Bear!
- Knole
- On the write tracks in literary Kent - Day 4
- On the write tracks in literary Kent - Day 3
- On the write tracks in literary Kent - Day 2
- On the write tracks in literary Kent Day 1
- On the write tracks in literary Kent
- Penshurst is the Place
- From Country Pursuits to the Western Front
- Edmund Blunden - echoes from Yalding church bells
- Jane Austen walk
- John Knatchbull from Quarterdeck to Gallows
- Catherine Aird
- More from the tramps .....
- Van Gogh in Ramsgate?
- Tissot A Passing Storm c1876
- The Downfall of a Reading Detective
- Male Georgian/Regency authors
- Bluestocking writers
- Sketches By Boz - We must leave town!
- If You're Going to Snodland...
- The Kent Tramp Trail
- The Altar in the Loft
- Regency and Georgian Literature with a Kent Connection
- Jane Austen and Godmersham by The Rev. S. Graham Brade-Birks
- Kent Clues!
Recent posts
- Poetry dropping in Sandwich
- Reading Detectives film
- Out of the Blue - continued
- Denton Welch
- 45 London Road Sevenoaks
- To Penshurst
- Kent Finale!
- Mon 21 Sep 10.30 am DETECTIVE EVENT AT CENTRE FOR KENTISH STUDIES, MAIDSTONE
- Cat Lovers
- W H Davies
- Silence on the home front as my hard drive has died
- Jeffery Farnol
- Denton Welch, a look back to simpler times
- What Jane Austen really looked like !
- Life in the Country: With Quotations by Jane Austen and Silhouettes by Her Nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh
- First Meeting for Kent
- Jane Austen - Monster Mash Up
- Launch of Kent's Reading Detectives Team on 12 August
- Jane Austen Heritage Link
- Reading Detectives are starting soon in Kent
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It was a fascinating first meeting with so many different ideas about local authors. I picked up EM Forster's The Longest Journey which is the first of his books I have read so this is all new to me. Undressing Mr Darcy will be in the EM Forster Theater in Tonbridge in September. I also have the Kent Bedside Book by John Vigar in which there is a chapter By the Sea where places Jane Austen visited are written about by such people as Frank Muir. New Books, New Vistas. I'm so glad I joined the group.
Great launch meeting. Particulary enjoyed Rob's readings from some of the local fiction/ autobiography and hearing of the controversy re Jane Austen's portraiture.
Hello Tonbridge team
I really enjoyed meeting you all and discovering more about Kent's literary past. Denton Welch will be one to follow up I think. Good luck!
Can't wait untill the next meeting, it was great meeting you all :-) Have learnt so much about Jane Austen already.
I do like the manner in which you have presented this specific issue and it does indeed offer me personally a lot of fodder for consideration. On the other hand, from what I have experienced, I simply hope when the actual remarks pack on that people today stay on issue and don't get started on a soap box regarding the news of the day. Still, thank you for this excellent point and although I do not necessarily concur with it in totality, I value the perspective.
You have brought up a very good points , thankyou for the post.