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A Romantic Reading for Valentine's Day Weekend

2/1/2025

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"Chesterton's Marriage Proposal"

For this month's meeting, on Sunday, February 16th, 2025 at Ivy Hall beginning at 6:00 PM, we will be reading what has sometimes been called "Chesterton's Marriage Proposal," a letter which he wrote to his future wife Frances during their courtship, which comprises the whole of Chapter VIII of Maisie Ward's famous biography. Seems appropriate to us, with love in the air, on the weekend of Valentine's Day!

RSVP for this meeting below the "read more" break. For directions to Ivy Hall, click here.

The piece can be read online here (scroll down to find "Chapter VIII"), or else in this PDF scan from the text:
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UPDATED: January 2025 Meeting: G.K.'s Weekly at 100

1/10/2025

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IMPORTANT UPDATE

Owing to forecasted inclement weather, we will meet virtually via Zoom this month and not in-person at Ivy Hall. 

Join us on Zoom on Sunday, January 19th at 6 PM.

If you have signed up for our newsletter you should have received the Zoom meeting information already. If you need the link to join and cannot find it, please write to [email protected].

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Join us on Sunday, January 19 at 6:00 PM via Zoom as we celebrate the centennary (sort of) of the launch (sort of) of G.K's Weekly, the paper Chesterton helmed for the final decade of his life. 

For this meeting, we have put together a special reading packet which you can download here:

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Chesterton on Christmas - December 15, 2024

11/19/2024

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Join us on Sunday, December 15th at 6:00 PM at Ivy Hall to discuss Chesterton on Christmas with a special reading packet put together from some of GKC's journalistic essays on the topic.

SPECIAL EVENT: Apart from just reading and discussing Chesterton, we'll be introduced to a Victorian Christmas party game mentioned by Chesterton in two of the essays: Snapdragon. Don't miss this opportunity to learn aabout a fun and quirky Victorian custom which you may want to adopt as one of your own holiday traditions!

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Meeting for November 17, 2024

10/23/2024

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Join us on Sunday, November 17th at Ivy Hall at 6:00 PM to discuss Chesterton's take on the 1928 American Presidential Election.

​For address of Ivy Hall and other information, see this page.

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October 2024 Meeting

10/10/2024

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On Sunday, October 20th, join us at Ivy Hall at 6:00 PM to discuss Chesterton's great essay, "Reflections on a Rotten Apple," "a ​one-chapter explanation of Distributism."

This is a chapter from Chesterton's book of apologetics essays published in 1935, The Well and the Shallows.

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For address of Ivy Hall and other information, see this page.

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