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Please join us for our first research seminar visiting speaker event of the year! James is a terrific scholar and a wonderfully engaging speaker, so we’re set for an illuminating evening. Further details below. Do spread the word to other interested parties. And if you can’t attend in person but would like to hear James’s … Continue reading “Nineteenth-Century Centre Research Seminar – Wednesday 25th October at 5pm”

Wednesday 23rd November, Arts 103 (Constance Naden), 5pm-7pm This event will facilitate informal discussion about the relationship between poetry and the visual arts across the long nineteenth century, speaking to the particular research interests of members of the Nineteenth-Century Centre across the Department of English Literature and the Department of Art History, Curating and Visual … Continue reading “Eleanor Dobson and Claire Jones (UoB): Poetry and the Visual Arts”

‘Sweets of Poetical Despondence’: Creating Autumn in the Early Nineteenth Century Dr Tess Somervell Worcester College, Oxford Wednesday, 9th November, 5pm-7pm Arts 103 (Constance Naden Room) In Jane Austen’s Persuasion (1817), the heroine Anne Elliot repeats ‘to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn … that season which had drawn from … Continue reading “Tess Somervell (Oxford): ‘Sweets of Poetical Despondence’: Creating Autumn in the Early Nineteenth Century”

The Tennyson Society will be hosting a series of online talks this academic year, all of which will take place on Thursday evenings at 7.30pm London time.  OCTOBER 6                 Linda K. Hughes ‘The Elegies of Tennyson and Michael Field: Reclaiming and Transcending Loved Remains’.                                           NOVEMBER  3              Erik Gray                                                  ‘Tennyson and Sappho Revisited’    DECEMBER  … Continue reading “Tennyson Talks”

Please join us on Tuesday 15 March 5-7pm in Arts LR5 for this 19CC workshop. This event will facilitate informal discussion about the relationship between sculpture and poetry across the long nineteenth century, speaking to the particular research interests of members of the Nineteenth-Century Centre across the Department of English Literature and the Department of … Continue reading “Tuesday 15 March, 5-7pm, Arts LR5: Dr Ellie Dobson and Dr Claire Jones (UoB), Sculpture and Poetry Event”

In 1880, Mason Science College opened in Birmingham, offering a university-level education. At the opening ceremony, the biologist T. H. Huxley declared that ‘No child born in Birmingham, henceforward … need fail to obtain, not merely the instruction, but the culture most appropriate to the conditions of his life’. Mason College was to be a … Continue reading “24 January 3-4.30pm: What was it like to study at Mason College?”

Listen to a fabulous talk hosted by the De Morgan Collection and featuring Heather Bozant Witcher and Amy Huseby, editors of the new collection Defining Pre-Raphaelite Poetics. The volume features chapters by 19CC colleagues John Holmes & Hannah Comer. Online now!

Please join us on March 24th  for our Seminar Series: Dr. Hannah Britton, ‘Channels of Communication: The Wordsworths, the Wye and the Letters of 1812’ 24 March, 5:00pm GMT Zoom seminar; all are welcome! Register here (link will be sent to registered participants before the event).