Reading Villette and talking about Emily

The Valve is organizing a summer reading of Villette. These are the details (and here):

Proposed Schedule:

By the given date, we’ll aim to have read at least the chapters specified. As I’ll be away on holiday over the end of June, we’ll start in early July.

Volume I:
July 7: Chapters 1-8
July 14: Chapters 9-15

Volume II
July 21: Chapters 16-22
July 28: Chapters 23-27

Volume III
August 4: Chapters 28-35
August 11:Chapters 36-42

August 18 & 25: Criticism

And next Wednesday, July 8, Denise Giardina, author of the upcoming Emily's Ghost is giving a lecture in Charleston, West Virginia:

A West Virginia Author Summons The Brontës
With Denise Giardina
Wednesday, July 8, 12:15 pm, Art Gallery
Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences of West Virginia

Charleston author Denise Giardina will read from and discuss her upcoming book 'Emily's Ghost: A Novel of the Brontë Sisters'. Giardina is the author of several novels, including 'Storming Heaven'. She is an ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church and is writer-in-residence at West Virginia State University. The author will also sign copies of her previous books after the lecture, so be sure to bring along your Denise Giardina novels!

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