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Reading the Nineteenth Century – Students choice

Nineteenth-century novelists are not only masterful storytellers, but also valuable witnesses of their times. In this monthly course, we will be reading Victorian novels in the light of what they tell us about the age in which they were written.  What were the issues that concerned our forebears?

Predictably drugs, alcohol, love, the position of women, religion, social justice – sounds familiar?

This course is for the general reader, who wants to delve a little more deeply into their reading. Participants will be expected to read all four novels ahead of the monthly discussions, and to share their ideas with the rest of the group.

The course will run 7-9pm on Wednesdays.

23 May – In the fifth and final session, participants will introduce a novel of their own choice which has something to say about Nineteenth-century society. Help will be given with the selection.

The seminars are led by Sherry Ashworth, writer and Visiting Teaching Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University.

23rd May 2018

7pm - 8pm

Workshops

A Large Cheerful, airy house, quite out of Manchester smoke.

Charlotte Brontë on visiting the House, 1851