25 September 2003
Jennifer Howarth ‘Fanny Burney and Barbara Pym – Novelist’s, Diarists and
Humourists’
Jennifer Howarth was a film producer for seven years in London, Italy and Los
Angeles. She is now living in Bath, raising a family and writing for films and
Radio 4. She has adapted the diaries of Fanny Burney for Woman’s Hour. Her
much praised ‘Resurrection of Miss Pym’ was broadcast earlier this year.
Text in Context Lecture Series
Text in Context is a series of lectures which will run throughout the year.
Leading scholars, novelists and writers will bring alive the historical and
cultural conditions in which eighteenth-century women novelists lived and
worked. Our autumn season is devoted to the topic of pleasure.
7 October 2003
Markman Ellis ‘Coffee House Pleasures'
Dr. Markman Ellis is a reader at Queen Mary College, University of London and
the author of two acclaimed books on eighteenth-century literature. He is
currently completing a book on coffee houses to be published by Edinburgh
University Press in 2004.
4 November 2003
Lucy Moore: 'Women's Pastimes in the Eighteenth Century'
Dr. Lucy Moore is a writer of many acclaimed works on eighteenth-century high
and low life including The Thieves Opera (1998) Con Men and Cutpurses: Scenes
from the Hogarthian Underworld (2000), and Amphibious Thing: The Life of a
Georgian Rake (2000).
Regency Dance and Dinner
15 November 2003
Regency Dance and Dinner led by the Jane Austen Dancers
This event will comprise a presentation on dancing in Regency England and
Austen's novels, a dance demonstration and an opportunity to learn some of the
steps yourselves. The evening will culminate in a Regency dinner in Chawton
House's Dining Room.
Contemporary Women Writers Series
21 November 2003
Ruth Rendell
Day Conference
1 November 2003 at Senate House, London
Madame de Stael’s Corinne (1807)
This day conference, jointly organised by Chawton House Library, The Corvey
Hallam Project and the University of Southampton will take place at Senate
House, University of London. Speakers include Kate Davies (University of
York) and Emma Francis (University of Warwick). Professor Cora Kaplan
(University of Southampton) will act as respondent. For further details visit
http://www.sas.ac.uk/ies/default.htm or contact Dr. Jennie Batchelor
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Dr. Jennie Batchelor
Chawton Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of English
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
023 8059 8386
http//:www.soton.ac.uk/~jeb
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