by aseifert | Feb 9, 2015 | Events
Jane Austen began to write Emma in January of 1814 and finished it a little over a year later, in March of 1815. At the time of completion, Austen was thirty-nine years old. Emma was published at the end of 1815, with 2,000 copies being printed—563, more than a...
by aseifert | Nov 17, 2014 | Events
The Annual George Eliot Conference at the Institute of English Studies is organised and will be introduced by Barbara Hardy (Birkbeck & Swansea) and Louise Lee (Roehampton) Papers will be presented by: John Rignall (Warwick & Co-Editor, George Eliot Review):...
by aseifert | Oct 6, 2014 | Events
Dickens Day, now in its 28th year, is looking at how conviviality features in Dickens’s life and work. Dickens’s works are famously convivial, depicting sociability in myriad forms: from the famously boozy Pickwick Papers, through the Crachits’ sentimental festive...
by aseifert | Sep 15, 2014 | Events
To celebrate the official launch of The Drood Inquiry (www.droodinquiry.com), this one-day conference will explore the mysterious world of Drood and its solutions. Further details and updates can be found on our blog...
by aseifert | Sep 8, 2014 | Events
A one-day symposium at the Institute of English Studies in association with Liverpool John Moores University Research Centre for Literature and Cultural History and Peter Owen Publishers. Anna Kavan’s publication history spans from her early novels under the name...
