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: Online Course – Feisty Females – Esther from George Moore’s Esther Waters

Literature is full of impressive female characters and now you can enjoy four feisty females from your favourite novelists! Join us this autumn/winter for cosy nights in with other literature fans to take a fresh look at Elizabeth Bennet from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Shirley from Charlotte Bronte’s Shirley, Margaret from Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South and Esther from George Moore’s Esther Waters. All four heroines hold fast to their principles and they get what they want by the end of their

: Online Course – Feisty Females – Margaret Hale from Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South

Literature is full of impressive female characters and now you can enjoy four feisty females from your favourite novelists! Join us this autumn/winter for cosy nights in with other literature fans to take a fresh look at Elizabeth Bennet from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Shirley from Charlotte Bronte’s Shirley, Margaret Hale from Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South and Esther from George Moore’s Esther Waters. All four heroines hold fast to their principles and they get what they want by the end of

: Online Course – Feisty Females – Shirley from Charlotte Bronte’s Shirley

Literature is full of impressive female characters and now you can enjoy four feisty females from your favourite novelists! So join us this autumn/winter for cosy nights in with other literature fans to take a fresh look at feisty females Elizabeth Bennet from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Shirley from Charlotte Bronte’s Shirley, Margaret from Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South and Esther from George Moore’s Esther Waters. All four heroines hold fast to their principles and they get what they want by the

: Online Course – Feisty Females – Elizabeth Bennet from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

Literature is full of impressive female characters and now you can enjoy four feisty females from your favourite novelists! So join us this autumn/winter for cosy nights in with other literature fans to take a fresh look at Elizabeth Bennet from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Shirley from Charlotte Bronte's Shirley, Margaret from Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South and Esther from George Moore’s Esther Waters. All four heroines hold fast to their principles and they get what they want by the end of

: Online Course: A Man’s World – Lovers – John Thornton and Mr Rochester

**Please note this is a repeat of the previously sold-out February workshop** What do Victorian novelists have to say about men as fathers, lovers, activists, wealth creators – and kings? In this new course led by Dr Sherry Ashworth, we will start by looking at Elizabeth Gaskell’s John Barton in Mary Barton (father) and then move onto John Thornton in North and South together with Mr Rochester from Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (lovers). Then we will explore George