History Corner

The Enemy of Grub Street at the Whitefriars

George Gissing, the celebrated author of the novel New Grub Street, which satirizes the literary and journalistic world of 1880s London, attended the 20th April 1900 Dinner as a guest of Friar Edward Clodd.

Whitefriars Journal, Vol. 4, No. 4, December 1914

Covering dinners from 27th November to 18th December 1914, the Christmas Luncheon of 21st December 1914, the Annual Report for 1914 and two unpublished letters by Robert Louis Stevenson