Johnson Society of London

Programme October 2021– April 2022

Unless otherwise indicated, meetings take place at Wesley's Chapel, City Road.

2 October, 2:30 pm at Charles Dickens Museum

Hannah Cowley, dramatist and poet

Dr Angela Escott 

The construction and destruction of David Garrick's Drury Lane

Robert Whelan

11 December (click here for booking form: Johnson Society of London lunch booking form 2021.pdf)

12 noon. The Annual Commemoration at Westminster Abbey.

1:00 pm. The Society's annual luncheon, St Ermin's Hotel

3:00 pm. The need for friendship: Frances Burney and Samuel Johnson's non-literary relationship

Professor Nigel Wood

Lodging in Georgian London with Johnson and his circle

Dr Gillian Williamson

Johnson's designs

Dr Freya Johnston

Addison and the theatre of suicide

Dr David Taylor

9 April, 2:30 pm

The bastard's progress: the afterlife of Richard Savage

Dr Nicholas Seager

For a copy of the programme, click here: Johnson Society of London Programme 2021-2022.pdf