Women Writing Spaces and Connections

A reminder of a scholar alert for today, March 7 at the University of Warwick:

"Women Writing Space: Representations of Gender and Space in post-1850 British Women's Writing"

Among many other interesting talks there will be a panel on "Victorian Borders and Boundaries" which includes a paper on Charlotte Bronte's Villette; also, one of our keynote talks will Lynne Walker, talking about Victorian women, identity, and space.

12.45-13.35
Lynne Walker (London)
'Going Public: Victorian Women, Identity and Domestic Space'

16.10 - 17.30 Panel 3: Victorian Borders and Boundaries
Henriette Donner (York University, Toronto)
‘Writing from the ‘Third Space’: Charlotte Bronte’s Villette’

And at the other side of the pond, as we informed previously, today is the opening of the following exhibition at the Old Capitol Museum (University of Iowa), in Iowa City, IA:

"Fresh Threads of Connection: Mother Nature and British Women Writers"

On display March 7 - May 24, 2009

Exhibit opening with tea and cakes - March 7, 1 - 3 p.m.

click here for additional programs and dates

“Fresh Threads of Connection,” whose title is taken from George Eliot’s Middlemarch, features ten women writers and their unique relationships with “nature”—and with each other. The exhibit, opened in conjunction with the 2009 British Women Writers Conference (2-5 April), weaves together unexpected connections between the authors themselves: it questions the art (and the nature) of science in the works of Mary Shelley and Margaret Cavendish—it considers visions of human nature in Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen—it celebrates the imaginative animal worlds of Anna Sewell and Beatrix Potter—it examines cross-cultural and cross disciplinary treatment of art and nature in Christina Rossetti and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu—it explores nature as artistic metaphor in Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot. Exploring these unexpected connections between authors while exploring changes in the treatment of nature in literature over time sheds light on the complex yet intimate bond between the changing reality of nature and developing realism of art in 18th and 19th century England, and the parallel bond between mother nature and female artists during this period.

Categories: Art-Exhibitions, Scholar, Talks