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SUMMARY:College Town Conversations: “Poets and lovers evermore”: The Remarkable Story of Two Victorian Women Writers
DESCRIPTION:Professor Carolyn Dever will discuss the remarkable story of 
 “Michael Field\,” the Victorian author who was in fact two women. This 
 is a hybrid event.  Join us in person in the Mayer Room or online via Zoom. 
 No registration required in person\; register for Zoom here.\n\nMichael 
 Field was known to late-Victorian readers as a superb poet and 
 playwright—until Robert Browning let slip Michael FIeld’s secret 
 identity: in fact\, “Michael Field” was a pseudonym for Katharine 
 Bradley (1846-1914) and Edith Cooper (1862-1913)\, who were lovers\, a 
 devoted couple\, and aunt and niece. For thirty years\, Bradley and Cooper 
 kept a joint diary titled Works and Days that eventually reached almost 
 10\,000 pages. A who’s who of late-Victorian art worlds\, the diary tells 
 the extraordinary story of the love\, art\, ambitions\, and domestic life 
 of a queer couple in fin de siecle England. \n\nPlease come join a 
 discussion about the diary—a story stranger than fiction!—and its 
 brilliant\, enigmatic authors.\n\nCarolyn Dever\, Professor of English and 
 Creative Writing\, is a scholar and teacher of British literature and 
 culture of the nineteenth century. She is the author of Chains of Love and 
 Beauty: The Diary of Michael Field (Princeton University Press\, 2022)\, 
 and the editor of One Soul We Divided: A Critical Edition of the Diary of 
 Michael Field (Princeton University Press\, 2023). Dever's earlier books 
 include Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud: Victorian Fiction and 
 the Anxiety of Origins (Cambridge)\, Skeptical Feminisms: Activist Theory\, 
 Activist Practice (Minnesota)\, The Literary Channel: The Inter-National 
 Invention of the Novel (Princeton)\, and The Cambridge Companion to Anthony 
 Trollope (Cambridge).  She is co-editor\, with Amy Kahrmann Huseby\, of the 
 ongoing Cambridge History of Victorian Women's Writing. \n\nJoin Meeting: 
 https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lc-GgqT0vHNL6lqBQft0sllfObqKCFyhp
LOCATION:Mayer Room
ORGANIZER;CN="Jared Jenisch":MAILTO:jared.jenisch@thehowe.org
CATEGORIES:Adult
CONTACT;CN="Jared Jenisch":MAILTO:jared.jenisch@thehowe.org
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