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New book announcement

Ethel Carnie Holdsworth’s Helen of Four Gates (1917) This is a new edition of Ethel Carnie Holdsworth’s Helen of Four Gates (1917) – her bestselling second novel, originally published under the pseudonym ‘The Ex-Mill Girl’. As Pamela Fox makes clear … Continue reading

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International Virginia Woolf Conference

Nicola Wilson writes: Last month I was fortunate to go to Vancouver for the 23rd annual International Virginia Woolf Conference, this year on ‘Virginia Woolf and the Common(wealth) Reader’. It was a wonderful few days! I was part of a … Continue reading

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Undergraduates as paid researchers

UROP placements for this summer. Are you looking for a paid summer job that will help to develop your subject knowledge and research skills? Two research projects in the department have been awarded funding on the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Programme … Continue reading

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Archives and Texts seminar

The Week 3 Summer Term Archives and Texts Seminar features Dr Rosa Maria Medina Granda who will be delivering a paper entitled: ‘Intercomprehension between related languages: reading Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince and its translations into several Spanish languages’ … Continue reading

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Special Collections Symposium

On Saturday 24th March we welcomed thirty delegates to the University of Reading’s Special Collections for our one-day symposium on ‘Authors, Publishers and Readers: Selling and Distributing Literary Cultures, 1880-1940’. There was a good mix of academics, writers and archivists, … Continue reading

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Authors, Publishers and Readers: a new exhibition

Exhibition announcement       Authors, Publishers and Readers: Selling and distributing literary cultures, 1880-1940 12 March – 30 March, normal museum opening times (Museum of English Rural Life) Staircase hall display   The display focuses on the changing literary … Continue reading

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Nicola Wilson talks to the BBC

  Ethel Carnie Holdsworth on the radio I went up to Blackburn on Tuesday to do a studio interview on Radio Lancashire about the mill girl author, Ethel Carnie Holdsworth (1886-1962). As so much of academia is about the long-game, … Continue reading

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