Sunday 6th October 2024
Book your placeFrances Wilson talks about DH Lawrence
3pm
Sherborne Literary Society hosts a talk on one of Britain’s best known and controversial writers, D.H. Lawrence by the hugely talented Frances Wilson.
Frances is an English author, academic, and critic. She taught English literature at Reading University for ten years, leaving to become a full-time writer.
She reviews for The Times Literary Supplement,The Spectator, The Oldie, New Statesman, The Guardian, and The Daily Telegraph, has been a judge for the Whitbread Biography Prize, the Man Booker Prize, the Baillie Gifford Prize, and was chair of the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize.
She has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 2009. She was also the Jean Strouse Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library from 2018 to 2019, where she worked on a biography of D. H. Lawrence, published in 2021.
The talk will last for approximately 40 minutes with an informal Q&A afterwards.
