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# Title Description Contributor
1 2. Wilde, Victorian and Modernist

Sos Eltis gives the second lecture in her series on Oscar Wilde, focussing on his place in the...

Sos Eltis
2 Why should we study Dickens?

Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst of Magdalen College, Oxford, discusses his current research and...

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Ilana Lassman
3 Dickens' Railways

Professor Stephen Gill, Lincoln College, gives a talk about the influence the Railways had on...

Stephen Gill
4 Oscar Wilde's Women

Sophie Duncan introduces Oscar Wilde by setting him in an accurate historical context.

Sophie Duncan
5 Julian Thompson on Rudyard Kipling

Dr Julian Thompson considers a writer described by Kingsley Amis as 'our greatest writer of...

Julian Thompson
6 A Discussion of Emily Dickinson's 'I started early, took my dog'.

Dr Sally Bayley presents an illuminating reading of Emily Dickinson's 'I started early...

Sally Bayley
7 Why Dickens?

Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst talks of Dickens' life and influences and why these have made...

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
# Essay Title Description Contributor
1 Character and Environment in Thomas Hardy's Fiction

Thomas Hardy was born in Upper Bockhampton, Dorset and lived within the county for much of his...

Charlotte Barrett
2 Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), novelist and poet, was born on 2 June 1840, in Higher Bockhampton,...

Charlotte Barrett
3 Spiritualism, Science and Atavism

In the Victorian era, Gothic fiction had ceased to be a dominant literary genre. However, the...

Charlotte Barrett
# Title Description Author
1 2. Wilde, Victorian and Modernist (handout)

Sos Eltis gives the second lecture in her series on Oscar Wilde, focussing on his place in the...

Sos Eltis
2 The Turn of the Screw

Henry James'novella, the ghost story 'The Turn of the Screw', first published in 1898.

Henry James
3 The Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy (vol 1) Thomas Hardy
4 The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy
5 Far From the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
6 The Woodlanders

In three volumes.

Thomas Hardy
7 The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy
# Resource Title Description Contributor
1 Illustrated Cover for 'The Woman in White'

Cover art Chatto & Windus: London, 1889. Yellowback [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons...