The Anthony Powell Society

Background & Aims

The Anthony Powell Society was founded in June 2000 by a group of scholars and enthusiasts following Powell's death at the age of 94. The Society's aim is to advance for the public benefit, education and interest in the life and works of the English author Anthony Dymoke Powell.

The Society emerged from the Anthony Powell Resources website (ie. this site; begun in 1994 by Dr Keith Marshall) and its associated e-mail discussion list following the interest in Powell stimulated by the dramatisation of A Dance to the Music of Time on UK Channel 4 TV in autumn 1997 and following his death.

In addition to biennial conferences the Society organises events for members and publishes a quarterly Newsletter. Members around the world are also establishing local groups and running local events. Through the e-mail discussion list members have provided assistance with the DeProm translation of the initial volumes of A Dance to the Music of Time into Dutch. The Society has also been asked for advice by various media organisations around the world.

The Society -- actively welcomed and supported by Powell's late widow, Lady Violet, his family and literary executors -- was granted charitable status in April 2003.