Monthly Archives: January 2016

Kate Macdonald gives a public talk

Kate Macdonald is a literary historian, and a Visiting Fellow in the English department. She works on different aspects of what and how ordinary people read, from around 1880 up to the 1960s: this encompasses middlebrow studies and publishing history … Continue reading

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Archives and Texts research seminar TODAY

Dr Clare Broome Saunders (Oxford) Monday 25th January (wk 3) 1.10-2.15 URS (lego building) 2s26   ‘Through many dreary volumes of archives has she waded’: Louisa Stuart Costello and the 19th Century Literary Market Louisa Stuart Costello (1799-1870) was a … Continue reading

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The ABC of our lives…

One of our students, Chloe DeLulington, writes: The ABC of why studying English Literature at Reading is Awesome   Academic Excellence. Perhaps a bit of a boring one to start with, and definitely the sort of thing most university prospectuses … Continue reading

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