by eleanorh | Jul 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
At rare off-duty times during lockdown, two moments from novels have repeatedly come to mind. One is Arthur Clennam’s imprisonment in the Marshalsea towards the close of Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit: ‘None of us clearly know to whom or to what we are indebted …...
by eleanorh | Jul 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
Lockdown reading takes many forms, from the rediscovery of the attractions of Jane Austen’s socially enclosed worlds, to the recognition of the predictive power of texts like Camus’s La Peste, or Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End. As a specialist in Renaissance...
by georgiareeves | Jul 2, 2020 | Summer Schools
IES PhD student Natalia Fantetti talks to author Francesca Wade about her new book, Square Haunting. To research the work of women is to realise just how often their histories have been obscured, consigned to the footnotes, or just plainly left out. With my own...
