The Emily Chesley Reading Circle

No doubt when you first heard of the Emily Chesley Reading Circle, you imagined a collection of gentlemen who looked something like the fellow to the right: studious, learned, goateed, and wearing a silly hats.

How right you were!

That is a portrait of the late Dr. Maximilian Tundra in his “Lenin” days. (And don’t be fooled, that’s not tobacco he was enjoying in that pipe.)

But we digress. What you really want to know, is why we are here at all, and that question is best answered by the first two items in our Covenant:

The Emily Chesley Reading Circle dedicates itself to a monthly “library night” where they shall meet at a mutually-agreeable “reading” venue and conduct “scholarship.”

The Emily Chesley Reading Circle pledges to further the study of Emily Chesley, a long-overlooked Canadian speculative fiction writer of the late Victorian period, who lived for some time in the London, Ontario region.

So there you have it. “Reading,” “library nights” and Emily Chesley. Our raison d’être.

We are based in London, Ontario, and have members all over the world. You may contact us here, via the comments below, or you can fill out our handy-dandy form.