Main Features

 

Stay 5 or 10 nights

7 excursions, 7 fell-walks, 6 to 14 lower level walks

10-12 keynote lectures and 30-32 research papers

•   Either 4 or 9 full days in Grasmere (two parts, of 5 nights each, with a changeover day)
•   Registration fee: £235 for both parts; £185 for one part (rising to £250/200 on 1 May)
•   Full Board Hotel prices for 10 nights, from £510 to £900 [see tariff]
•   Youth Hostel prices, from £423 half board [see tariff]
•   Some apartments for three may be available: p.o.a.
•   Excursions to Vindolanda, the Duddon, Lowther Castle and elsewhere
•   Up to seventy miles of fell walking including (probably) Great Gable and Bow Fell

Format and Costs: The conference is in two parts of 4 full days each, with a changeover day on Saturday 4 August. The non-resident and registration fee, which includes up to seven excursions, offers exceptional value at £235 for ten days (£185 for five days). Full Board at the conference hotel is available at prices ranging from £510 to £900 (for ten nights), and accommodation at the YHA for £434 (half board) to 487 (full board). See TARIFF.

Call for Papers: we invite proposals for twenty-minute papers on all aspects of William Wordsworth, his contemporaries and the Romantic period. Papers that identify a bicentenary theme, 1812–2012, will be welcomed, as will presentations that reflect upon the achievement of Jonathan Wordsworth’s great book William Wordsworth. The Borders of Vision (1982). Our opening night will include a reception in the Wordsworth Museum followed by a candle light visit to Dove Cottage. There will be a further opportunity to explore the riches of the Wordsworth Trust’s collections with the curator Jeff Cowton, and to visit the Trust’s summer exhibition Pen, Paint and Pixels Touring the English Lakes across 250 years. Among our excursions will be the Roman fort and settlement at Vindolanda, close to Hadrian’s Wall, and a minibus tour of the picturesque Duddon Valley in the South of the Lake District. For walkers the attractions are likely to include Great Gable, Bow Fell, and an all-day walk from Haweswater to the Elizabethan Chapel of Martindale via Rough Edge and Beda Fell.

Proposals:250 word proposals for papers of no more than 2750 words together with a brief unformatted c.v. should occupy no more than 2 sides of A4 (they will be copied into a composite file). Please do not send as a pdf. E-mail to the Conference Director Nicholas Roe at wordsworthsummerconference@gmail.com by 31 March 2012. All other enquiries should also be e-mailed to this address.

Bursaries: Please see the separate announcement of bursaries offered for the 2012 Conference

 

Advice on Getting to Grasmere

 

Conference Director: Nicholas Roe

Conference Administrator: Stacey McDowell

 

wordsworthsummerconference@gmail.com

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