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This is a place one can go mad in – Ivor Gurney, Asylum Poet |
Ivor Gurney was a First World War poet and a composer of beautiful songs, and orchestral and… |
Kate Kennedy |
| 2 |
Significant Lives: Biography, autobiography, and women's history in South Asia |
Looking at women’s lives in South Asia, it is impossible to separate the strands of narrative self-… |
Supriya Chaudhuri |
| 3 |
Reading between life and work: Reflections on J.M. Coetzee’s life-writing |
The work of J.M. Coetzee – the novels, taken together with the memoirs and the critical essays –… |
Elleke Boehmer |
| 4 |
Elleke Boehmer's The Shouting in the Dark and Other Southern Writings |
Emma Parker interviews Elleke Boehmer about her award-winning novel The Shouting in the Dark (2015… |
Elleke Boehmer, Emma Parker |
| 5 |
Diaries as Literature - The Case of Virginia Woolf |
In this Open Day taster lecture, Michael Whitworth considers whether diaries are literature and how… |
Michael Whitworth |
| 6 |
Making Oscar Wilde |
A Book at Lunchtime seminar with Michele Mendelssohn, literary critic and cultural historian. Dr… |
Michèle Mendelssohn, Sos Eltis, Hermione Lee, Charles Foster |
| 7 |
Brilliant Paradoxes and Corrosive Epigrams; or Why Oscar Wilde Went to Trial |
In this Open Day taster lecture, Sos Eltis explores the complex causes which motivated Oscar Wilde’… |
Sos Eltis |
| 8 |
The Women who 'Meant to Do It': George Eliot and Celebrity Performance |
The novelist Patricia Duncker gives the keynote lecture at the Life-Writing and Female Celebrity… |
Patricia Duncker |
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"Bright Metal on a Sullen Ground": The idea of true character in English writing and portraiture |
Historian Stella Tillyard delivers the fourth Weinrebe Lecture in Life-Writing and Portraiture. The… |
Stella Tillyard |
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"Oh, you liar, you storyteller": On Fibbing, Fact and Fabulation |
The first Weinrebe lecture in life-writing was given by Michèle Roberts, Emeritus Professor of… |
Michèle Roberts |
