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'Thou large-brained woman': literary conference

3 October 2006

An international, interdisciplinary conference entitled ' "Thou large-brained woman": Literary Women in the Nineteenth Century: Anglo/French Perspectives' will be held on 11 November at UCL's Gustave Tuck lecture theatre.

Eight eminent academics from the UK, France and the United States will speak on subjects ranging from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's travels in France, to English country-house literary salons.

Professor Rosemary Ashton (UCL English) will discuss the work of the feminists Marian Evans, Bessie Rayner Parkes and Barbara Leigh Smith and the radical publisher John Chapman in the 1850s. Alain Jumeau of Université de Paris, Sorbonne, will present Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot's thoughts on 17th-century French writers Madame de Sablé and Madame de Sévigné.

To find out more and to register, contact Dr Berry Chevasco.