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The Westside/405 Reading Group was formed in 2015 under the leadership of Karen Berk and meets regularly at the home of Syrie James. We welcome new members!
Reading List Archive
2021
February 14
Gods and Monsters by V.C. Christensen
April 17
Because of the Lockwoods by Dorothy Whipple
June 12
A Damsel in Distress by P. G. Wodehouse
August 21
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
November 14
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
December 18
Lady Ludlow by Elizabeth Gaskell
2020
The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
The Particular Charm of Miss Jane Austen by Ada Bright and Cass Grafton
Blindspot by Jane Kamensky
Brittania Mews by Margery Sharpe
My Lady Ludlow and Mr. Harrison’s Confessions by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
2019
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (and 2004 mini-series screening)
Frederica by Georgette Heyer
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
Pride and Prometheus by John Kessel
2018
March 3
Defiance by Stephen Taylor
June 23
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
August 25
Cry of the Peacock by V. R. Christiansen
October 27
Cluny Brown by Margery Sharp
December 15
Of Moths and Butterflies by V.R. Christensen
2017
February 18
Victoria by Daisy Goodwin
May 20
Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor
July 15
The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
September 23
The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A. Flynn
December 9
The Scarlett Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
2016
March 6
Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne
June 11
The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett
August 20
The Making of a Marchioness and The Methods of Lady Walderhurst by Frances Hodgson Burnett
October 8
A Lady of Quality by Frances Hodgson Burnett
December 10
Evelina by Fanny Burney
2015
August 9
Re Jane by Patricia Park