John Coffin Memorial Lecture in English

18 September 2009, 18:00 - 19:00

Event Type: University Trust Fund Event

Speakers

Victoria Glendinning, 'Remembering Rebecca: The Craft of Biography'. Chair, Professor Carl Rollyson (Baruch College, City University of New York)

Description

Biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist, Victoria Glendinning CBE is President of English PEN and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her acclaimed biographies include "Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer" (1977); "Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions" (1981); and "Rebecca West: A Life" (1987). Both "Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West" (1983) and "Trollope" (1992) won the Whitbread Biography Award. Her latest biography is "Leonard Woolf" (2006). She is the author of three novels: "The Grown-Ups" (1989), the story of Leo Ulm, author, pundit and academic; "Electricity" (1995), the story of a Victorian girl embroiled in new experiences and a new technology; and "Flight" (2002), a novel of passion and betrayal set in the world of international business.

In association with the conference "Rebecca West in London": 18-19 September 2009.

Free and open to the public, and followed by a wine reception. If you would like to attend please contact Jon Millington, Institute of English Studies: tel. 020 7664 4859.

Venue : Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor)

South Block of Senate House, Ground Floor
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