[open-humanities] London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship

Mon Apr 22 08:34:51 UTC 2013

London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship
Thursday 25 April at 5.30pm, Room 234, Institute of English Studies, Second Floor, Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU

Claire Harman, author, ‘Revisiting Syvlia Townsend Warner’

Claire Harman is a professional writer who has published four major literary biographies. Claire’s first biography was of the English novelist and poet Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978), which was published in 1983 and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1990 for ‘a book of value from a writer of growing stature’. In this talk, Claire will talk about her approach to Sylvia Townsend Warner and will consider how the emergence of new digital technologies has changed the way in which biographies are researched and written. Claire is contemplating a project in which an electronic version of her biography will make supplementary materials on Sylvia Townsend Warner available, and will discuss the potential of new forms of publication for changing the ways in which biographies are presented.

Andrew Prescott