Past Event: Liverpool, Chapter & Verse Festival: Gaynor Arnold
- Where
- Performance Space, The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool - view on map
- When
- 6:00pm, 15th October 2009
Catherine and Elisabeth: Voices from Forgotten Histories with Gaynor Arnold & Cynthia McLeod
This event involves two fascinating novelists discussing their books which give voice to real-life women marginalised in very different ways. Gaynor Arnold is the author of Girl in a Blue Dress, a fictionalised account of Catherine, Charles Dickens’ wife, with whom he had ten children and left nothing in his will but their marital bed.
Cynthia McLeod is from the former Dutch colony of Surinam in South America and the daughter of its first president. Her novel, The Free Negress Elisabeth, is based on Elisabeth Samson, an 18th century millionairess: how could a black woman become so successful during the colonial slavery period? Cynthia McLeod comes to Liverpool as part of the Go Dutch project.
Both novels draw us into the Victorian and 18th century Dutch colonial societies respectively with rich description and strong characters.
Hosted by Suzi Feay, former literary editor of the Independent on Sunday.
Thursday, 15 October 2009 | 6:00pm – 7:15pm
Location: Performance Space, The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BX
Tickets: £3 / £2 – Book online here
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