by wilkieco | Jun 12, 2013 | News
THE NEW JOURNAL At last the WCS has a new Journal! Enclosed with this Newsletter is volume 1 of the New Series for which we have all patiently been waiting. Its appearance is a tribute to the new editors, Graham Law and Lillian Nayder, who have worked so hard on its...
by wilkieco | Jun 12, 2013 | News
SOME SUMMER QUOTES ‘Light, Sir, is the grand decree of Providence’. The Woman in White And for those about to take up sailing, don’t forget Wilkie’s warning and suggested cure: ‘Sounds nautically and lamentably associated with white basins, whirling waves, and misery...
by wilkieco | Jun 12, 2013 | News
‘Nobody can accuse me of having ever been accessory to the disturbing of quiet people with useful knowledge.’ (A Rogue’s Life) SOME SUMMER QUOTES ‘Of all oppressive summers, a hot summer in London is the hardest to endure.’ (The Evil...
by wilkieco | Jun 12, 2013 | News
NEW MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY Because of her other personal commitments, our very efficient Membership Secretary, Louise Marchant, has been forced to give up the position which she has so ably filled for the last few years. She will remain on the committee where she will...
by wilkieco | Jun 12, 2013 | News
‘A PICTORIAL TOUR TO ST. GEORGE BOSHERVILLE’ With this Newsletter comes the latest WCS reissue of one of Collins’s out of print pieces. Now that almost all of his fiction, short and long, is back in print it was decided at a recent committee meeting...
