A GROUP that meets in Wokingham to discuss all things literary will hear from Chris Davies, Christine Harrington, and Doug Irvine at the society’s first meeting of the new year.
After the austerity of war, during the late 1950s and early 1960s, changing social attitudes were reflected in popular plays and novels.
Chris Davies will show how literature reflected the national mood and introduce Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, the quintessential campus novel.
Christine Harrington will recall Room at the Top by John Braine and consider the attitudes of that era and whether the novel’s Joe Lampton really was an ‘angry young man’.
And Doug Irvine will discuss whether Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe and Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson (with their different portrayals of working class life) reflect the life and times of the UK in the 1950s, and if not, why not.
The society meets in the Lecture Room at Wokingham Baptist Church, usually on the third Thursday of the month from September to May.
Special interest groups, social events, and Zoom sessions also take place monthly, and new members and visitors are always welcome.
Sessions finished now for this year, their next meeting is at the Baptist Church, on Thursday, January 16, from 7.30pm until 9.30pm.
For information, visit: wokinghamliterarysociety.org.uk
