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"Bright Metal on a Sullen Ground": The idea of true character in English writing and portraiture

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Historian Stella Tillyard delivers the fourth Weinrebe Lecture in Life-Writing and Portraiture. The talk is introduced by College President Hermione Lee.

Date Published: 18 February 2013
Contributors:
Stella Tillyard
In Collection(s): Writing lives: biography, autobiography, memoir, life-writing
Keywords:
Fiction, life-writing, #greatwriters, english
Source:
University of Oxford Podcasts
Cite: "Bright Metal on a Sullen Ground": The idea of true character in English writing and portraiture by Stella Tillyard at http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ via http://writersinspire.org/content/bright-metal-sullen-ground-idea-true-character-english-writing-portraiture. Published on 18 February 2013. Accessed on 04 November 2025.

If reusing this resource please attribute as follows: "Bright Metal on a Sullen Ground": The idea of true character in English writing and portraiture (http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/) by Stella Tillyard, licensed as Creative Commons BY-NC-SA (2.0 UK).