Harris Manchester’s inaugural Manchester Lecture will be given by Professor Dinah Birch, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Liverpool. The Manchester Lectures are intended to explore aspects of the College’s own history, and the topic for 2024 is William and Elizabeth Gaskell: The Unitarian Making of a Novelist.
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Dinah Birch is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool. She has published widely on Victorian fiction and poetry, and on the work of the artist and critic John Ruskin. Her books include Ruskin’s Myths (1988) and Our Victorian Education (2008), and she is the General Editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature (2009). She has published editions of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford (2011), Anthony Trollope’s Can You Forgive Her? (2012) and The Small House at Allington (2014) with Oxford University Press, together with recent essays on George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and John Ruskin. She writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books, contributes to Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time and Sky Arts documentary broadcasts, and has served as a judge on the Booker Prize panel. She is currently writing a book on Anthony Trollope.
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