Thu 20 Jul 2023, 19:00 - 20:30
Blake Morrison on Emily Brontë's life, work and passion for the wild. With dramatic readings by Kate Ashfield.
This event takes place in the British Library and will be simultaneously live streamed on the British Library platform. Tickets may be booked either to attend in person, or to watch on our platform (online) either live or within 48 hours on catch up. In-person ticket bookers will also be sent a bonus link to th
e online event. Viewing links will be sent out shortly before the event.
The online version of this event will be live captioned.
The timeless works of the Brontë sisters and the landscapes that shaped them still inspire writers today – including Blake Morrison, who reworked Chekhov’s The Three Sisters as a play about the Brontës.
In this talk Morrison explores the sisters’ remarkable legacy and discusses some of the sisters’ rare manuscripts and first editions that form part of the Blavatnik Honresfield Library.
The Blavatnik Honresfield Library was purchased for the nation in 2022 by the Friends of the National Libraries with the support of the Blavatnik Family Foundation, the National Heritage Memorial Fund and many other generous supporters.
Marking the 50th anniversary of the British Library, tickets are pay-what-you-can, from as little as £1.
Blake Morrison is a poet, novelist, librettist and the author of two bestselling memoirs, And When Did You Last See Your Father? and Things My Mother Never Told Me. His play adaptations for Northern Broadsides included one based on the Brontës, We Are Three Sisters. He is Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths University, London.
With dramatic readings by Kate Ashfield. Kate has recently shot the feature film Stockholm Bloodbath directed by Mikael Håfström. She was in the second series of the hit ITV show Sanditon starring opposite Kris Marshall, Rose Williams and Anne Reid. Kate’s big break came off the back of Edgar Wright’s Shaun of the Dead where she starred alongside Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Kate’s other credits include the BBC mega-hit Line of Duty, as well as A Confession opposite Martin Freeman. Kate is also a BAFTA nominated writer, who created the acclaimed Channel 4 series Born to Kill starring Jack Rowan.
An earlier version of this event is featured in the Bradford Literature Festival.
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