Patsy Stoneman in Brussels and more

Three Brontë-related alerts for the following days:

1. Cheltenham Festival (Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK)

Behind Closed Doors
Event 163, Friday 17 October, Cheltenham Town Hall 2-3pm

Lisa Appignanesi, Michael Neve & Helen Small

Women's mental anguish finds a particular kind of expression in 19th century novels from Jane Eyre to Madame Bovary and beyond. Leading writer Lisa Appignanesi, author of the critically acclaimed Mad, Bad and Sad joins literary expert Helen Small and medical historian Michael Neve to discuss the 19th and early 20th century's medical treatment of women's extreme states of mind and its reflection in the period's literature.

2. The Brussels Brontë Group organizes a talk by Patsy Stoneman:

Saturday 18 October 2008 at 14.30
Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis, Bld. du Jardin Botanique/Kruidtuinlaan 43, 1000 Brussels

What Everyone Knows about Wuthering Heights: the novel and its adaptations
A talk by Dr Patsy Stoneman illustrated by film clips

Patsy Stoneman will examine the assumption that even people who haven't read Wuthering Heights think they know what it is "about", mostly from films. She will compare some extracts from film adaptations of the novel (e.g. the 1939 film with Laurence Olivier, the 1970 film with Timothy Dalton and the 1991 one with Ralph Fiennes, as well as the Bernard Hermann opera and the 1991 musical) with the corresponding passages from the novel, showing for example that the films give us answers to what in the novel remain questions.

Patsy Stoneman is Emeritus Reader in English at the University of Hull. Her main areas of study are the nineteenth-century English novel, especially the novels of the Brontës and Elizabeth Gaskell, and women's studies in English. Her works include several critical guides to Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, and an edition of previously unpublished Victorian stage plays based on Jane Eyre.
She encourages audience participation and there will be plenty of opportunities to ask questions and for discussion.

Entrance charge €6 (includes drink)
Non-members welcome

Contact person: Helen MacEwan at helen.macewan@ec.europa.eu
Access map of Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis: http://www.fusl.ac.be/fr/233.html

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3. And at the Brontë Parsonage Museum:

Saturday 18 October

Wild Workshops: Art and craft workshops for children aged 5-11 years.
Bronte Parsonage Museum - 10.00am-12.00noon and 1.30pm-3.30pm
£4.25 per child - Bookings susan.newby@bronte.org.uk / 01535 640185

Categories: Alert, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Brussels, Talks