Fielding's Amelia at last!

Hello All:

Thank you for your patience in our two-week hiatus--Spring Break is, alas!, over and so, thankfully, is our amazing conference. We are ready to roll up our brocaded coats, fluff our perriwigs, apply our patches, and tighten our shifts once again--in short, we're ready to get back to work at the eighteenth-century reading group!

This week we'll be reading Henry Fielding's lesser-studied novel, Amelia. <--Click on the title to access the full novel on Project Gutenberg (thanks, Kate, for the link!). You can also find the very first scholarly edition from Broadview Press on amazon relatively well-priced.

We also will likely have a special guest this week: Tracey may be bringing a prospective C18 graduate student in the English program to sit in our talk. While it seems unlikely that our prospective will have had time to read the novel and join the conversation, let's make her feel welcome! Dinner to follow at The Runcible Spoon.

As always, we'll be meeting on Kirkwood at The Pour House on Wednesday, March 27th from 4:30 - 5:30. We hope to see you there!