From early modern authors such as Anne Lock and Victorian writers including Emily Brontë to twentieth-century fiction by Virginia Woolf and twenty-first-century retellings of Greek myths, women writers have been representing violence for centuries, whether in a bid to expose abuse, as part of a process of catharsis, or in complicity with oppressive socio-political regimes. Although many literary scholars have acknowledged and analysed women writers’ engagement with violence in Anglophone contexts, such studies are rarely in dialogue with one another due to the boundaries of periodisation within literary studies. These four online workshops bring different periods, genres, and forms into dialogue on the topic of women writing violence.
Online Workshop Series on 3rd, 4th, 10th and 11th April 2025, Online – Event details and registration via Eventbrite to receive the Zoom link, 03.04.2025 to 11.04.2025, Deadline: 03.04.2025,
e-mail for inquiries: lara.ehrenfried@lmu.de Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-writing-violence-tickets-1203085082869
