The 2023 Sylvia Townsend Warner Lecture

HYBRID: The 2023 Sylvia Townsend Warner Lecture
Streamed live on Wednesday 18 October 2023

Join us for the 2023 Sylvia Townsend Warner Lecture, featuring Professor Claire Harman.

The Sylvia Townsend Warner Society(https://townsendwarner.com/) is very pleased to host Professor Claire Harman presenting the 2023 Sylvia Townsend Warner Lecture. Her subject is '"The true voice of the heart": capture and evasiveness in Sylvia Townsend Warner's life and work'.

Claire Harman is an award-winning writer and critic, and the author of seven major literary biographies. She is especially known for her pioneering work on Sylvia Townsend Warner, including a biography published in 1989 and editions of Warner’s poetry and journals. She has taught English at the Universities of Manchester and Oxford and creative writing at Columbia University in New York City. She is now Professor of Creative Writing at Durham University. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2006 and became President of The Alliance of Literary Societies (https://allianceofliterarysocieties.w...) in 2016.

The previous three Sylvia Townsend Warner Lectures were given by Maud Ellmann (2017), Peter Swaab (2019) and David Trotter (2021), and are published by UCL Press in the Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society (https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/stw/).
They are freely available online as open access publications:
After the Death of Don Juan: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Spanish Novel - https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/stw/a...
Sylvia Townsend Warner and the Possibilities of Freedom: The Sylvia Townsend Warner Society Lecture 2019 https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/stw/a...
‘My Usual Despicable Hold on Life’: The View from Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Diaries - https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/stw/a...

The lecture is supported by UCL Press: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/, the UCL English Department: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/english/ucl-eng... and the UCL Institute for Advanced Studies: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-ad....