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Novel Women: Samuel Richardson's Heroines

29 Feb 2012

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7.00pm

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Tickets: £5, concessions £3

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Peninsula Arts

Plymouth, United Kingdom

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  • Bus Stop drops off on North Hill
  • Plymouth Railway Station 5 mins walk
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Great Writers and their Influence Dr Bonnie Latimer, Lecturer in English, Plymouth University In 1740 Samuel Richardson created an extraordinary publishing sensation with Pamela, his novel about the travails of a teenage serving girl. Pamela's impact was immediate, far reaching and arguably initiated the modern novel. Bonnie will discuss Richardson's literary innovation, identify his influence on writers such as Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf — and also ask why his work now lacks the currency of those writers. Bonnie's forthcoming book The Novel Individual: Making Gender, Culture and the Self in the Fiction of Samuel Richardson reconsiders the impact of Richardson's last novel The History of Sir Charles Grandison.

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