10-26 May
Become a FriendThe History of Emotion
Rachel Hewitt
In association with Writers’ Centre Norwich
Emotions have their own history. Rachel Hewitt examines the lives of five influential figures whose thinking paved the way for our modern-day attitude towards emotion: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Beddoes and Tom Wedgwood.
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Assisted performances: BSL interpreted and Captioned
Duration: c. 1 hour
Rachel Hewitt
Rachel Hewitt has written the award-winning Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey, and articles for publications including the Guardian, Telegraph, Financial Times and New Statesman. Rachel is the Weinrebe Research Fellow in Life-Writing at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, at the University of Oxford, where she also teaches English Literature.
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In association with Writers’ Centre Norwich