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London, Ontario's Emily Chesley Reading Circele [Canada] -- speculative fiction writer, Emily Chesley parody site

Restoring a speculative treasure

"My critics say that my writings are an offense to moral decency and Christian civilization. While in fact it is their autocratic regime, rife with a paterfamilias ethic that is the offense. I humbly suggest to them: get bent."

Emily Chesley, 1904, London, Ontario
(addressing the first Canadian Congress of Speculationists)

    
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The Meanderings of the Emily Chesley Reading CircleWelcome to the Emily Chesley Reading Circle

The Emily Chesley Reading Circle is a group of "scholars" and bon-vivants pledged to further the study of Emily Chesley, a speculative fiction writer of the late Victorian period (who lived for some time in the London, Ontario region), who has been long-overlooked by Canadian literature.

Founded in 1998, this website has been a repository of our scholarship about the many fine works of speculative fiction written by Emily Chesley, and about her life. We have decided to rework the site, in anticipation of the coming rapture of Web 3.0. We do not have a firm date to relaunch the site.

We will be maintaining our public service, the letters of annoyance.

And from time to time, we will give you a little sample of writing from our archives. Here is one of the inventions of Emily's "uncle", Michael Flannigan, The Bullet Brolly.

Of course, you could always purchase a copy of The Meanderings, which includes a biography of the first half of Emily's life, in addition to original stories and poetry by her, and the winners of our annual Tundra Prize.

   

 

Letters of Annoyance:
From time-to-time, we are confronted with the reality that some people are annoying. As a public service, the Emily Chesley Reading Circle is committed to hunting down society's irritations through our Letters of Annoyance.
               

Last updated:
November 9, 2007

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The Emily Chesley Reading Circle is a group of "scholars" and bon-vivants pledged to further the study of Emily Chesley, a speculative fiction writer of the late Victorian period (who lived for some time in the London, Ontario region), who has been long-overlooked by Canadian literature. Our research includes the history, literature, science and speculative fiction, parody and humor of Emily Chesley; we also examine the life of her "uncle", the quirky inventor Michael Flannigan. Indeed, the Circle also studies many of the other literary, historical and scientific figures they met in their lives, such as J.R.R. Tolkein, Lewis Carroll and Mahatma Gandhi.

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