History Corner
Serial SpeakersAccording to the club’s records, there are eleven people who have spoken to the club more than once.
Read moreAccording to the club’s records, there are eleven people who have spoken to the club more than once.
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A new document has emerged showing that the prolific English novelist and short-story writer Beatrice Kean Seymour, born in Clapham into a working-class family, spoke at the Whitefriars’ 1930 Christmas Banquet at the Trocadero.
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Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, who published under the pseudonym “Q” (1863–1944), was a prolific novelist, a literary critic and the editor of the monumental The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1900.
He spoke twice at the Whitefriars Club: on 8th April 1904 (‘What are the Dominating Influences in Literary Productions?’) and on 7th March 1913.
