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