Marina Warner
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Joined December 2014
from Italy, where she'd moved for her health, Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote to her sister and others wonderfully lively, affectionate, detailed letters. come and hear more
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Come and discover a historian's self-censoring, Ian Fleming's gossip with his wife Ann, early records of the stock exchange,all in mss the British Library has recently acquired with BLCollections Trust support:
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Autofiction? Prose poem? Fiction? Memoir? Longform essay? Meditations? Sally Bayley will be exploring her original and poignant quartet, with Eleanora Maio who is visiting Oxford from Italy where Sally B is published as a novelist and is a bestseller
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The Goddess, the Deity and the Cyborg explores the ways women artists have confronted fertility, nature, spirit, and female mystical powers, Together with several others, I shall be discussing the questions these works raise
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Arts Week: a feast of events! I'm holding A Living Almanac workshop with Steve Willey on May 8 - or 18 Floréal, if you're a French revolutionary. But the date could go by any other name and still be spring , in this Year of the Snake.
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Angelica Kauffman was the toast of her day, a founding artist of the Royal academy of Arts in London. But is she a foremother of feminism? A pioneer of women's art? A forerunner of Louise Bourgeois and Paula Rego? the question is a bit complicated...
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Poet, theorist, novelist, Dionne Brand is giving the second lecture in the series Atlantic Slavery and its Aftermaths. Her title promises a vision of possibilities - Salvage: Readings From the Wreck. al
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With The Library of Absence Conrad Shawcross takes his cue from whirling galaxies and a l960s Dansette player! He is joining a wonderful lineage of voyagers through optical consciousness and media illusionists,
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Threshold is a piece about love, a love between siblings so strong that one twin chooses to die rather than live without the other - but, as this is a myth, there is a dream solution
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RT @Bookartbookshop: Stories in Transit. Ways of Telling. 3-15 November 2023, curated by Marina Warner with Hannah Machover.
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Can stories make things happen? Do stories make a difference? Yes and no. For good and ill. To be discussed...
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Does time seem to rush by? Or does it hang heavy ? making your own almanac can give the days, the seasons, the years new meaning - come and try it!
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There is a story of maths, popularly dominated by a lone heroic discoverer, as in bio-pics. There are also mathematical aspects to patterning words and plotting stories, arising from internal interdependent structures.
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Pattern-making, pattern-discerning - do maths and aesthetics interact?
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The rich, funny, rueful tradition in the Islamic world of illustrating animal fables was a delectable surprise to me to me when I began looking online at manuscripts of Kalilah wa Dimnah, the stories of two jackals ...Thanks to the Public Domain Review
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The British Library collects for readers here and farther afield. Come and hear about some recent acquistions -Jane Austen to Andrea Levy - using funds generously given by readers over the years.
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