DANBURY AND LITTLE BADDOW BRANCH
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2011/12 COURSES


Course Title: 20th Century Fiction
Course Description: In our tutor led group discussions we are going to analyse three novels: My Antonia, Willa Cather (1918): The Bell, Iris Murdoch (1958): The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles (1969).
Tutor: Steven WadeJones
Venue: Riffhams Cricket Club Pavilion, Riffhams Chase, Little Baddow CM3 4AU
Day of Week: Tuesdays  Time: 10:00  Duration: 2 hrs  
Start Date: 27/09/2011  No. of Weeks: 10
Fee: £57
Contact Name: Audrey Saunders  Telephone: 01245 223053


Course Title: Hyenas in Petticoats
Course Description: "Well behaved women don't make History". This course concerns ten women whose activities shocked and rocked the accepted conventions of their times and did indeed leave a permanent mark on history.
Tutor: Valerie Morse
Venue: Memorial Hall, North Hill, Little Baddow CM3 4TB
Day of Week: Thursdays  Time: 10:00  Duration: 2 hrs  
Start Date: 29/09/2011  No. of Weeks: 10
Fee: £57
Contact Name: Audrey Saunders  Telephone: 01245 223053


Course Title: Renaissance North and South
Course Description: Renaissance is usually regarded as revival or rebirth. But what is revived is very different North and South, Gothic, Classical or Byzantine.
Tutor: Graham Slimming
Venue: St Johns Meeting Rooms, Main Road, Danbury CM3 4NG
Day of Week: Wednesdays  Time: 10:00  Duration: 2 hrs  
Start Date: 05/10/2011  No. of Weeks: 10
Fee: £57
Contact Name: Audrey Saunders  Telephone: 01245 223053


Course Title: Three Women Writers
Course Description: A comparison of three British based colonial women writers. Works include Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, Katherine Mansfield's short story and an Elizabeth Bowen novel and selected short stories.
Tutor: Stephen O'Kane
Venue: Riffhams Cricket Club Pavilion, Riffhams Chase, Little Baddow CM3 4AU
Day of Week: Tuesdays  Time: 10:00  Duration: 2 hrs  
Start Date: 10/01/2012  No. of Weeks: 10
Fee: £57
Contact Name: Audrey Saunders  Telephone: 01245 223053


Course Title: Dutch Art in the 17th Century
Course Description: This course will focus on genre paintings from the Dutch Golden Age of painting. These scenes of everyday life will be considered from a political, cultural and artistic perspective.
Tutor: Sandy Greenard
Venue: St Johns Meeting Rooms, Main Road, CM3 4NG
Day of Week: Wednesdays  Time: 10:00  Duration: 2 hrs  
Start Date: 11/01/2012  No. of Weeks: 10
Fee: £57
Contact Name: Audrey Saunders  Telephone: 01245 223053


Course Title: Representative of the People ? Parliament?s Story
Course Description: The story of England's (later Britain's) Parliament from its weak medieval beginnings through the turbulence of the 17th century to its being the envy of Europe.
Tutor: Roger Cooke
Venue: Memorial Hall, North Hill, Little Baddow CM3 4TB
Day of Week: Thursdays  Time: 10:00  Duration: 2 hrs  
Start Date: 12/01/2012  No. of Weeks: 10
Fee: £57
Contact Name: Audrey Saunders  Telephone: 01245 223053



Please note that the "duration" of one day courses includes a lunch break of up to two hours. More information about one day courses - including lunch arrangements - is available on the One Day Courses page.

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