Events

On Wednesday February 24th Juliet Gardiner, who has written the Preface to To Bed with Grand Music, will talk at a Lunch. The Lunches are from 12.30-2.30.  This event is sold out.

On Thursday March 11th we shall be showing two films at the BFI, 21 Stephen Street W1: a 70 minute film by Hilda Bernstein’s daughter Toni Strasburg called ‘Memories of Dreams’ about Hilda Bernstein’s life; and a Channel 4 dramatised documentary about Tilli Wolf- Monckeburg, author of On the Other Side. Both these films are very rare; it is hoped that one of Hilda’s daughters, Frances Bernstein, and Tilli’s granddaughter, Jessica Atkinson, will be present. The first film will be at 2, the second at 3.30, with tea inbetween. This event is sold out.

Book Groups: The Reading Group in the Lamb's Conduit Street shop is from 6.30-8 on the first Wednesday of each month; bread, cheese and madeira are served and the cost is £10. The next one is on March 3rd when we shall discuss Miss Ranskill Comes Home. 

  The Teatime Classics Reading Group at Lamb's Conduit Street is on the second Thursday of the month from 3.30-5. On Thursday March 11th we shall discuss Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. Then in April the LCS Teatime Group will start reading through the entire list of Persephone books -  but, because of Easter, this event will be on Thursday April 15th. The book under discussion will of course be William - an Englishman. 

We also run a book group on the third Tuesday of the month in Notting Hill Gate. The next one is on February 16th and the book under discussion will be Cheerful Weather for the Wedding by Julia Strachey. The next one after that is on Tuesday March 16th. Please ring either of the shops to book a place at one of the groups.

Find out more about past Persephone Events.

Apologies to those who have been waiting in vain for the Reading Groups pages to go live on the website. But The Persephone Forum, an online reading group which will incorporate a Reading Groups page, will go live in April.