Here is the revised programme for the conference.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Legacies of Aurora Leigh: Literature, Politics, Society
09.00 – 09.30 Registration and coffee
09.30 – 09.45 Welcome (Simon Avery)
09.45 – 10.45 Keynote 1: Professor Marjorie Stone
‘”Women now, Queens now!”: Aurora Leigh in the 1860s’
10.45 – 12.15 Panel One: Opening Up Debates
Clare Broome Saunders, ‘“a strange and, I think, dangerous composition”: Aurora Leigh and the perils of history’
Angelica Michelis, ‘“Kissing full sense into empty words”: Legacies of Aurora Leigh’s concept of the woman poet in late-19th and 20th-century women’s poetry’
Rachel Mann, ‘“In the beginning” – a scene from a garden fallen and restored: The disruptive fecundity of Marian Erle’
12.15 – 13.15 Lunch (own arrangements)
13.15 – 14.15 Keynote 2: Professor Margaret Reynolds
‘Rushing into Drawing Rooms: The Verse Novel Now’
14.15 – 15.45 Panel Two: Nineteenth-Century Debates and Forms
Shelley Walters, ‘“She and the rest of us militant foam with rage”: Bessie Rayner Parkes and the legacy of Aurora Leigh in the essays of Coventry Patmore’
Dino Felluga, ‘”A Love That Transcends all Bounds”: Aurora Leigh and the novel’
Christine Chaney, ‘”Ardour and Abundance”: Aurora Leigh‘s model polemics of self’
15.45 – 16.15 Tea and coffee
16.15 – 17.15 Panel Three: Later Developments
Michele Martinez, ‘Affidamento and the Woman Writer: Aurora Leigh and Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels’
Elizabeth Woodworth, ‘Aurora Leigh in the 21st Century: A legacy of teaching’
17.15 – 17.45 Reflections and the future of EBB studies: With Professor Cora Kaplan
17.45 – 18.30 Wine reception and Reading by Sharon Eckman
19.00 Conference dinner for those delegates who have signed up beforehand.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Legacies of Aurora Leigh 