THE  JOURNALS

 

The Society’s Journal is published annually, in July. The editor welcomes articles from both members and non-members, but reserves the right to edit them. Below are the contents of the Journals so far.

 

Number 1  :  July 2000

 

Raymond Moody                     Then and Now: Falkner’s Burford

Peter Davey                             John Meade Falkner’s ‘Wessex’ and The Lost Stradivarius

Christopher Hawtree                John Meade Falkner and Sir Nicholas O’Conor

 

Number 2  :  July 2001

 

Andrew Stibbs                         Pernicious nonsence? Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner

Edward Wilson                         Falkner in Camera: A Photograph from Taunt

Stephen Derry                          John Meade Falkner’s use of Desperate Remedies and A Laodicean in The Nebuly Coat

Peter Davey                             John Meade Falkner’s The Nebuly Coat: an undiscovered Wessex

 

Number 3  :  July 2002

 

George D. Woodman               John Meade Falkner: Novelist and Arms Dealer

Raymond Moody                     A Poem by John Meade Falkner: Burford, Oxon. (1)

William Peter Mead                Biographical Notes on the Mead, Mobbs and Gaskell Ancestors of John Meade Falkner

Edward Wilson                        Falkner All’ Ombra del Vesuvio

Dale J. Nelson                         Writers in the M. R. James Tradition

 

Number 4  :  July 2003

 

Kenneth Warren                       John Meade Falkner in Durham [1889-1932]: a perspective on a small cathedral city

Peter Davey                             Shadow Over Corfe: a consideration of J. Meade Falkner’s poem Corfe Castle

Dale Nelson                             Antiquarian Allusions and Inventions in Charalampia

Christine R. Simpson                John Meade Falkner, his works and influence on Dorothy L. Sayers

(Edward Wilson ed.)                Random Reflections: a correspondence

 

Number 5  :  July 2004

 

John Coulter                             John Meade Falkner as a Book Collector

Kenneth Warren                       A Berkshire Bicycling Holiday

Peter Davey                             Shooting the Past

Arnold Hunt                             Chronology and The Nebuly Coat

John Meade Falkner                 Did Lord Blandamer murder Sharnall?

 

 

Number 6 : July 2005

 

John Meade Falkner                 My dear Mr. Stone

Christopher Hawtree                Shilling Lives

Kenneth Hillier                         A Derbyshire or Northumberland Pedagogue?

-                                               “Rich and Hard by Name”: A 1483 Mystery

Number 7: July 2006

 

Rev. W. Miles Barnes                 Fleet Old Church and its Brasses

John Meade Falkner                   A Letter to the Revd. W. Miles Barnes

Royd Whitlock                           Carisbrooke Castle in Moonfleet

Kenneth Hillier                            John Meade Falkner and Lord Rendel - a contretemps

     -                                            "Rich and Hard by Name"  Part II

John Meade Falkner                   Returning to London (a poem)

 

Number 8: July 2007

Richard H. Taylor                       John Meade Falkner and Thomas Hardy
John Meade Falkner                   Dear Mr. Hardy
George Robson                          John Meade Falkner M.P. ? 
Royd Whitlock                           The Religious Books  in Moonfleet
Page and Allan Life                    John Meade Falkner and source material (1)

 

Number 9:  July 2008

George Robson and

Kenneth Hillier                       The Cobra Trail

Elswick                                   "an augean stable"

Michael Daniell                       Oxfordshire, Berks but not Bucks: John Meade Falkner's correspondence  with his publisher

Christopher Hawtree               "Crazy Vessel": Falkner's Bath Inheritance 

 

Number 10: July 2009

Christopher Hawtree                       John Meade Falkner's Impressions of Death

George Robson                               Rural Rides to Catcleugh

Royd Whitlock                                Moonfleet : Maritime Matters

Kenneth Warren                              Concentric Worlds: The Divinity House in the life of John Meade Falkner

John Meade Falkner                        Last Ballade of Burford

 

Number 11: July 2010

George Robson            A Speculation
Michael Daniell            'A very small result'? John Meade Falkner's History of Oxfordshire
Christoper Hawtree       A Transplanted Hidalgo
John Meade Falkner     Villa Adriana (poem) 
John Meade Falkner     'Twixt Deal and Dover (poem)
Royd Whitlock             Index to Volumes 1 - 10