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27th April 2022: Women’s History Month – Homes of Women Writers Lunchtime Roundtable

Rachel Chua / April 14, 2022

For the second of our special Women’s History Month seminars, we invite you to join us for a roundtable session with several key figures from museums and collections centred around celebrated women writers. We’ll be sitting down with Sally Jastrzebski-Lloyd,…

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Why Charlotte Brontë still speaks to us – 200 years after her birth

Dr Robin Joyce / June 12, 2016

  Vanessa Smith Professor of English, University of Sydney  Jane Eyre has been retold over and over again, but remains eternally relevant. Jane Eyre (2011), Focus Features   What is it that makes generation after generation respond to Charlotte Brontë’s…

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The Women’s History Network is a national association and charity for the promotion of women’s history and the encouragement of everyone interested in women’s history. Following our establishment in 1991 we have grown year by year and today we are a UK national charity with members including working historians, researchers, independent scholars, teachers, librarians, and many other individuals both within academia and beyond. Indeed, the network reaches out to anyone...

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