Talks, Courses and Poetry

Brontë alerts for the upcoming days:

1. A talk at the University of Georgia:

2010 Women and Girls in Georgia Conference
Paul D. Coverdell Center
Saturday, October 2, 2010

3:30-4:45pm Gender Studies - In the Classroom and Beyond
"Woman at Work: The Story of Jane Eyre Criticism"
Jacqueline Stocker, University of Georgia

EDIT: 2. A talk at Ilkley Literature Festival:

Saturday, October 2nd, 2010, 7:30 pm at St Margaret's Hall
The Brontës Revisited: Juliet Barker
Juliet Barker’s biography, The Brontës, was the most radical reassessment of Yorkshire’s most famous literary family ever written.Now, 16 years later, Juliet has completely revised and updated it, breathing new life into this modern classic. She talks about The Brontës and recently discovered material she has incorporated into this new edition.

3. Another talk at Scarborough:

Scarborough Archaeological and Historical Society
Monday, October 4 at 7.30pm in the Central Library's Concert Room in Vernon Road.
The season will kick off on October 4 with a literary flavour with the Life in Haworth in the time of the Brontës lecture by Isobel Stirk. (Scarborough Evening News)

4. A course on the Brontës at Oxford University:

Online and Distance Learning
Mon 4 Oct to Fri 17 Dec 2010
Brontës
Course code O10P339LTV

Overview
How did three sisters living an apparently secluded and eventless life write some of the most original, passionate and dramatic novels and poetry in the English language? Who were the Brontës, what fed their imaginations, and what makes their writing so haunting, intense, and important?
Students completing this course will be invited to join our online book group.

Description
The website of the Brontë Parsonage Museum states: ‘To find two writers of genius in one family would be rare, but to find several writers in one household is unique in the history of literature. Charlotte and Emily are ranked among the world’s greatest novelists; Anne is a powerful underrated author, and both their father, the Revd. Patrick Brontë, and brother Branwell also saw their own works in print’. This course explores those works of genius and places them in their literary, cultural, and historical (including family) contexts. Participants will come to understand and to be able to analyse what makes the Brontës’ writings so haunting, intense, and original. This course is for anyone who has read or would like to read the work of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, or who is interested in nineteenth-century literature or women’s writing.

Programme details
1. Brontë lives and myths
2. Reading the Brontës
3. Charlotte Brontë: structure and themes of Jane Eyre
4. Charlotte Brontë: contexts of Jane Eyre
5. Anne Brontë: contexts of Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
6. Anne Brontë: representations of women
7. Emily Brontë: themes and motifs
8. Brontë manuscripts and editions
9. Emily Brontë: structure and language of Wuthering Heights
10. The endings of the Brontës’ novels, rewritings, prequels and sequels, and opportunities for further exploration.
StaffDr Sandie Byrne
Role: Tutor

Dr Sandie Byrne was formerly Fellow and Tutor in English at Balliol College, Oxford, and Professor of English Literature at the University of Lincoln. She is the author of a number of books and articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts, including Jane Austen: Mansfield Park (Palgrave Macmillan 2004) and a forthcoming book, 'Possessions and Dispossession in the novels of Jane Austen'.

5. Libby Sternberg, author of Sloane Hall, read from her writings in Elizabethtown, PA:

Bowers Writers House at Elizabethtown College presents Lancaster, Pa., novelist Libby Malin Sternberg, who will read from her writings at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5, in the Bowers venue.
A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Sternberg writes teen mysteries and women's fiction. The first of her four teen mysteries, which were written as Libby Sternberg, was a finalist for the prestigious Edgar Allan Poe award from Mystery Writers of America. Her humorous women's fiction, written as Libby Malin, has been called by Booklist "a world of wit and chaos, smart and insightfully written."
Malin Sternberg's first historical women's fiction, "Sloane Hall," which was inspired by Charlotte Bronte and her novel Jane Eyre, was released in September. In addition to writing, she edits manuscripts for two major publishers. (Source)

6. Poetry in the Hullbridge, Essex:

Essex Poetry Festival
Wednesday, October 6th, 8pm
Judy Brown & Katrina Naomi

Judy Brown's collection is published by Seren in September 2010. Katrina Naomi's collection The Girl with the Cactus Handshake was published by Templar, she was poet in residence at the Brontë Parsonage Museum.

Southend Poetry Group at the Naval & Military Group,
20 Royal Terrace, Southend-on-Sea, SS1 1DU

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