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| # | Title | Description | Contributor |
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| 1 | Making Oscar Wilde |
A Book at Lunchtime seminar with Michele Mendelssohn, literary critic and cultural historian. Dr... |
Michèle Mendelssohn, Sos Eltis, Hermione Lee, Charles Foster |
| 2 | Brilliant Paradoxes and Corrosive Epigrams; or Why Oscar Wilde Went to Trial |
In this Open Day taster lecture, Sos Eltis explores the complex causes which motivated Oscar... |
Sos Eltis |
| 3 | Edward Lear's Feelings: Wonder |
This programme examines different meanings of 'wonder' in Lear - as both a positive and a... |
Matthew Bevis, Jasmine Jagger |
| # | Title | Description | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Oh, you liar, you storyteller": On Fibbing, Fact and Fabulation |
The first Weinrebe lecture in life-writing was given by Michèle Roberts, Emeritus Professor of... |
Michèle Roberts |
| 2 | Where may truth lie? Fiction in memory, memory in fiction |
The award-winning author and memoirist Candia McWilliam attests to the edifying power of fiction... |
Candia McWilliam |
| 3 | What can I say? Secrets in fiction and biography |
Booker Prize winning novelist Alan Hollinghurst discusses fiction and biography in conversation... |
Alan Hollinghurst, Hermione Lee |
| 4 | Brought to Book: Book History and the Idea of Literature |
Professor Paul Eggert, University of New South Wales, gives the 17th Annual D.F. McKenzie... |
Paul Eggert |
| 5 | Harriet Shelley - Letter to Eliza Westbrook, Shelley and her parents |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Harriet Shelley drowned herself in December 1816,... |
Hannah Morrell |
| 6 | Mary Shelley - Letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley and Mary arrived back in London to face the... |
Nouran Koriem |
| 7 | Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley - Joint journal entry |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley and Mary eloped at 4.15 am on 28 July 1814... |
Henry Cockburn |
| 8 | William Godwin: Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Godwin's memoir of Mary Wollstonecraft has... |
Henry Cockburn |
| 9 | Senses of Reality: Writing the Biography of a Revolutionary Generation |
The annual Isaiah Berlin Lecture given at Wolfson College on May 27th 2010. |
Roy Foster |
| # | Essay Title | Description | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is there any truth in biographical fictions? |
In 2006 David Lodge expressed surprise at how popular biographical novels have become. Also... |
Katherine Collins |
| 2 | Reading between life and work: Reflections on J.M. Coetzee’s life-writing |
The work of J.M. Coetzee – the novels, taken together with the memoirs and the critical essays... |
Elleke Boehmer |
| 3 | James Joyce: A Biography |
James Augustine Joyce, the eldest surviving son of John Stanislaus Joyce and Mary Jane ('May')... |
Cleo Hanaway |
| 4 | The Importance of Being Wilde |
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all" ... |
Kate O'Connor |
| 5 | Aphra Behn |
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was a bold, salacious, and pioneering individual. If Frances Burney made... |
Kate O'Connor |
| 6 | Rudyard Kipling |
... |
Dominic Davies |
| 7 | Thomas Hardy |
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), novelist and poet, was born on 2 June 1840, in Higher Bockhampton,... |
Charlotte Barrett |
| # | Title | Description | Author |
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| 1 | Walt Whitman, poet and democrat | J.M. Robertson |
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| 1 | Photograph of Oscar Wilde |
By Napoleon Sarony (Library of Congress) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons |