Belatedly we report the appearance last Thursday of Juliet Barker in Morley, UK:
Morley Literature Festival
Juliet Barker
Historian Juliet Barker was educated at Bradford Girls’ Grammar School and St Anne’s College, Oxford, and still lives in Yorkshire.
A specialist in the middle ages and literary biography, her books include The Brontës, which won the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award, Wordsworth: A Life and Agincourt, the fourth-best-selling history book of 2006. Her forthcoming Conquest, due to be published in October 2009, rediscovers the now largely forgotten time when England ruled France. We’re delighted to be welcoming Juliet to Morley Town Hall to talk about her new book, and previous work, on the festival’s Thursday (October 15).
And in Brussels, the
Brussels Brontë Group organizes a series of activities:
Saturday 17 October 2009 at 14.00
Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis (Room P61), Bld du Jardin Botanique/Kruidtuinlaan 43, 1000 Brussels
Are you anybody, Miss Snowe?
A talk by Dr Maureen Peeck O'Toole about Charlotte Brontë's Brussels novel Villette, followed by readings of passages from the novel.
A significant aspect of Villette is the way the reader is often addressed by the narrator, Lucy Snowe. Maureen Peeck argues that the character of Lucy Snowe is partly realised by means of her relationship with this fictitious reader:
"In this talk I will argue that one aspect of Villette is the way Charlotte Brontë posits a fictitious reader addressed several times by the narrator Lucy Snowe, and that Lucy is partly characterized by means of these addresses. This is of course only one of the many threads running through the novel, long and complex as it is, but I hope that my comments will help readers new to Villette to get their bearings, and those already familiar with it to experience again Charlotte Brontë's brilliant plotting of her novel."
Maureen Peeck was born and bred in Bradford, West Yorkshire and is a life member of the Brontë Society. She lives in the Netherlands and, until her retirement, was a lecturer in British literature at Utrecht University. Her interest in the Brontës led her to research the poetry of Emily Brontë which resulted in her book Aspects of Lyric in the Poetry of Emily Brontë.
After a break for coffee, there will be readings of passages from Villette.
Non-members welcome.
Entrance charge: €7 (pay at the door)
Please register beforehand for this event by emailing Helen MacEwan at helen.macewan@ec.europa.eu.
Sunday 18 October 2009 at 10.00
A guided walk around Brontë places in Brussels
Please register beforehand with Helen MacEwan at helen.macewan@ec.europa.eu.
Categories: Brussels, Talks
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