Announcements

148 THE EDITOR'S FENCE 1. ELT Seminar on the Novel and Society (MLA, New York. Dec 1976)« The twentieth consecutive meeting of the Seminar will be held in New York in Dec 1976, with H. Ray Stevens (Western Maryland College, Westminster, Md) as Discussion Leader. The panel of discussants will consist of« Alice Patterson on Bennett, Jill Rubinstein on Butler, and H. Ray Stevens on Galsworthy. Papers by members of the panel will not be read in full at the meeting but will be printed in ELT, 19«4 (1976). The Seminar issue will be mailed in Oct or early Nov, 1976¡ single copies are available in the U. S. at $1.50 each. Details of the meeting will be published in the Seminar issue. 2. ELT Seminar on English Fiction (1880-1920) - Critical Approaches (MLA, Chicago, Dec 1977)« The proposed twenty-first ELT Seminar, pending MLA approval, will be held at the MLA meetings in Chicago in Dec 1977> with H. E. Gerber (Arizona State University) as Discussion Leader. We shall focus on problems raised by various recent critical approaches to such authors as Arnold Bennett, George Moore, George Gissing, Thomas Hardy, and H. G. Wells. Potential authors of papers are urged to propose new critical directions that might be taken. Papers to be considered should be sent to H. E. Gerber well before 1 July 1977, so that panelists' names may appear in the MLA program. ANNOUNCEMENTS 1. Conferences« The Conference on Modern Literature, this year concerned with Language, Literature and the Experience of Reading will be held at Michigan State University, 7-9 Oct 1976. Among the speakers« Noam Chomsky, Diane Wakoski, Frank Smith, Yetta Goodman, Alan Hollingsworth, Walter Ong, Merle Brown, E, Fred Carlisle, and David Bleich. For information, write« Conference on Modern Literature, Continuing Education, Michigan State University , East Lansing, Mich. (48824). The H. G. Wells Society will sponsor a seminar on The Rediscovery of H. G. Wells, "a reappraisal of Wells from both a literary and a sociological standpoint"« London, 9-10 Oct 1976. For information , write« Hon. General Secretary, H. G. Wells Society, 24 Wellin Lane, Edwalton, Nottingham, England. 2. Journals and Publishers« The Modern British Literature Newsletter , ed by Edward A. Kopper, Jr. (English, Slippery Rock State College) and to appear twice a year, solicits subscriptions ($3.00) and contributions (notes and articles on major 20th-century British authors). Write» E. A. Kopper, Jr., 108 Farmington Dr., Butler, Pa (l6001). The Academy Press, Ltd., I76 West Adams Street, Chicago, Illinois (60603) has been recently founded by Anita Miller and her husband. Dr. Miller is the editor of The Arnold Bennett Newsletter. The 149 Academy Press began its publishing activities with A Guide to Non-Sexist Children's Books (1976), now in its second printing. The Millers are considering reprinting some ELT authors for classroom use - cheers! 3. People« Gladys Mary Coles has completed The Flower of Light, a critical biography of Mary Webb, to be published by Duckworth early in 1977· Also forthcoming by the same author are A Mary Webb Collection (Wildings, Shrewsbury), previously unpublished and uncollected writings, and Mary -Webb» Selected Poems, with an introduction by Ms. Coles. Richard Carpenter (Bowling Green State University) writes that he will (has, in fact, at this mailing done so) be teaching at Salzburg from spring through early summer, 1976. Ian Fletcher (Reading) gave a lecture on "A Text of No Importance» on Assembling a Bibliography of Oscar Wilde," under the auspices of The Eighteen Nineties Society, on 26 March 1976, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London. W. Eugene Davis (Purdue University) made a brief jaunt to Hamburg, Germany, this summer to familiarize himself with his forthcoming duties as Director of the Purdue-Indiana University Junior Year Abroad Program. J. P. Wearing (University of Arizona, Tucson) is the compiler of a two-volume research tool which should be of considerable interest to all students of the stage and especially those interested in late 19th-century drama« The London Stage, 1890-1899« A Calendar of Plays and Players (Metuchen, NJ« Scarecrow P, 1976). Professor Wearing is co-editor of Nineteenth Century Theatre Research, now in its fourth volume. 4. MLA Division on Late 19th...