The Stickley Museum At Craftsman Farms

Join us for this fascinating lecture by Mary Greensted at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 10 at the Grolier Club. Mary Greensted’s talk will examine the influence of William Morris, father-figure of the Arts and Crafts movement, on the ideas and work of one of the most important British designers of the turn-of-the-century, Ernest [...]

Presented by David Taylor
Thursday, 12 March 2009 . 6 p.m., reception to follow
The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York
Although he was a friend and colleague to many famous artists, authors, and activists, the lawyer and positivist Vernon Lushington (1832–1912) remains virtually unknown today. In “Vernon Lushington: Pre-Raphaelite, Friend of William Morris, and Father [...]

A staged reading at the Grolier Club, New York
Wednesday, 19 November, 6 p.m.

The first American performance of Virginia Woolf’s comedy, Freshwater, will be held on Wednesday November 19th in New York’s Grolier Club. The play, a hilarious send-up of Woolf’s great-aunt, the famed photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, and her friends poet Alfred Tennyson, [...]