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TV adaptation of Anne Lister’s diaries. Halifax, Yorkshire, 1832. Charismatic, Anne Lister determines to transform the fate of her ancestral home Shibden Hall. To do this, she must re-open her coal mines...
Documentary telling the story of publishing house Virago Press, which dared to set itself apart to champion women’s literature in an industry dominated in the 1970s by men. [59 minutes]
A short podcast looking at the life and career of writer Doris Lessing, a Nobel laureate who has been praised for her ability to inhabit different fictional worlds. Part of The New Elizabethans, a series...
A short podcast looking at Australian born feminist and academic Germaine Greer, who is credited with making feminism appealing and accessible for a large audience of both men and women. Part of The New...
Professor David Coward summarises the career of Algerian writer Assia Djebar and in an extended interview invites her to reflect on the important influences in her life and writing.
Follows author Adeline Yen Mah, whose recently published autobiogrphy ‘Falling Leaves’ traces her life from the prosperous Shanghai of the 1940s, to the savagery of the Cultural Revolution, through to...
A view of the American Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas), one of the oldest inhabited parts of the United States, through the eyes of contemporary artists and writers. Nine women artists from Pueblo,...
Looks at the daily lives of eight 17th-century women writers and the range of issues that concernd them, including midwifery, the plight of the poor under Cromwellian rule, and the battle against the...
Uses evidence from the lives and literature of six women writers - Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and Alice Walker - and the commonality and...
A multimedia CD-ROM including movie clips, photographs, hypertext critical essays and primary documents on the novel ‘Rebecca’ by Daphne du Maurier and its film adaptation by Alfred Hitchcock and David O...
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