life-writing

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1	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...	Supriya Chaudhuri
2	Diaries as Literature - The Case of Virginia Woolf	In this Open Day taster lecture, Michael Whitworth considers whether diaries are literature and...	Michael Whitworth
3	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
4	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...	Sos Eltis

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1	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...	Elleke Boehmer, Emma Parker
2	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
3	"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....	Stella Tillyard
4	"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
5	Where may truth lie? Fiction in memory, memory in fiction	The award-winning author and memoirist Candia McWilliam attests to the edifying power of fiction...	Candia McWilliam
6	What can I say? Secrets in fiction and biography	Booker Prize winning novelist Alan Hollinghurst discusses fiction and biography in conversation...	Alan Hollinghurst, Hermione Lee

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1	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	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

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