The Wordsworth Winter School
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Forest
Side, Grasmere February 18-23, 2008
a convivial and stimulating |
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Forest
Side, Grasmere February 18-23, 2008
a convivial and stimulating |
Please watch this space for details of 2009
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The 2008 Winter School
William Wordsworth / Writing Women
'Let me thank you ... for all that you have
sung of women
... You have done all that Milton left undone'
(Elizabeth Palmer Peabody,
Boston 1835)
Lectures:
Nicholas Roe on Women in Wordsworth's Poems
Michael O'Neill on Felicia Hemans and male Romanticism
Ken Smith on The Ruined Cottage
Richard Gravil on Wordsworth, Helen Maria Williams and Sensibility
Pamela Woof on Dorothy and Mary Wordsworth,
Claire Lamont on The White Doe of Rylstone
Felicity James on Wordsworth and Harriet Martineau
Seamus Perry on Coleridge and Women / Women in Coleridge
Special Events:
David Chandler & Constance Parrish
introduce poems by Charlotte Smith & Isabella Lickbarrow
Annie Mawson of Sunbeams Music Trust
sings "Susanna Blamire: Muse of Cumbria"
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Wordsworth Winter School, which has run annually since
1982, devotes four full days of lectures,
discussions and readings to immersion in the poetry of Wordsworth
and his contemporaries. There are two lectures, a seminar and a
poetry reading on each of the main days. Afternoons are devoted to a
special event, a walk or
an excursion, exploring Grasmere and its surroundings, in their rich
winter colours.
The Winter School will assemble on Monday 18 February (with a reception at 6.15) and disperse after breakfast on Saturday 23 February. Accommodation and all events are at Forest Side Hotel, fifteen minutes walk from Wordsworth’s home at Dove Cottage. For 2008 the full residential fee is £365. This includes the registration fee of £150 which is also payable by non-residents. Transport from and to Oxenholme Railway Station, if required, costs an extra £20. Accommodation is limited and you are advised to book early using the registration form (see registration button below). Please note that we may not be able to accept bookings for less than the full period and that there is a (reduced) fee for non-participants accompanying participants. For the Venue, the 2008 Programme, a Gallery and the Registration form, please see the links below.
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Further information may be obtained from The Academic Convenor, Richard Gravil ◘ richardgravil@hotmail.com The Winter School Administrator, Fiona Gravil ◘ wordsworth_conferences@hotmail.co.uk |
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