The Byron Society of America is pleased to announce that the playwright Romulus Linney will deliver the 5th Annual Leslie A. Marchand Memorial Lecture at the University of Delaware on Friday, 8 October 2004, at 4:00 p.m. A reception for all in attendance will follow from 5:15 until approximately 7:30 p.m.
(note: previously, this entry reported the date erroneously as 8 September. The correct date is 8 October.)
Many of you know Romulus Linney as the author of the successful play "Childe Byron," and some of you will recall that he and his daughter, the actress Laura Linney, read a scene from that play at the Hofstra Byron Conference some years ago. Linney's lecture will be "My Life with Byron."
The Theatre Conference recently offered the following summary of Linney's career: