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This meeting will help chart the development of the ESU as an international organization for years to come. Visit www.esuworld2008.org for more information.

NOTE: The Annual General Meeting of The English-Speaking Union of the United States will not be held as planned in Edinburgh. It has been rescheduled to late October in Chicago.

Join the Board for an update on Branch activities plus a talk by new member Angelica Carpenter.

Details to follow soon.

Lisa White is the Director of the Attingham Summer School for the Study of Historic Houses in England. Educated at Oxford University and trained at the Victoria and Albert Museum in the Departments of Furniture and Textiles, she taught at the University of Bristol from 1984-2000, and from 1999 - 2005 was Curator of Decorative Arts at the Holburne Museum of Art, Bath. She lectures on post-graduate courses for the Universities of Bath and London and for many other organisations. She is a member of the National Trust Arts Panel and Regional Committee for Wessex, and a Trustee of the Bath Preservation Trust. In 1990 she published The Pictorial Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century British Furniture Design, a standard reference work, and is currently preparing a publication on Appropriate Furniture which analyses the relationship between social requirements and furniture design in the Georgian and early Victorian periods.

This event is co-sponsored by the Royal Oak Foundation, The American Friends of the Attingham Summer School, and The Jane Austen Society of North American, Northern California Chapter.