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Forthcoming Event

The Women's Library Literature Events - Autumn 2008

In Love and Struggle: Letters in Contemporary Feminism:

Wednesday 17 September, 7pm, (90 mins) £6/£4 concs

Margaretta Jolly talks about her recent book on women's letters and what they reveal about the histories of a generation at the forefront of social change. From feminist relationships to political struggles, the joys and disappointment of love affairs and break ups.

Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love

Wednesday 15 October, 7pm, (90 mins) £6/£4 concs

Sheila Rowbotham’s major new biography situates Edward Carpenter’s life in relation to the social, aesthetic and intellectual movements of the day, particularly his support for women’s suffrage.

Significant Sisters: Innovative fiction, past and present day

Saturdays 15 & 29th November, 10.30am -3.30pm, £45/£35 concs

This two day literature course discusses a range of innovative women writers with short stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Susan Glaspell, and an opportunity to revisit Zora Neale Hurston's Harlem Renaissance novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and The Accidental by Ali Smith

Blonde Roots: Bernardine Evaristo in conversation with TBC

Wed 11 February, 7pm, (90 mins) £6 / £4 concs

Bernardine Evaristo's reads from her first fully-prose novel Blonde Roots published by Penguin. It's a slavery story with a difference: Africans enslave Europeans over a four hundred year period.

To book any of these events call 020 7320 2222

For more information email more.info@thewomenslibrary.ac.uk

http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/thewomenslibrary/whats-on/events/literature/lit_home.cfm