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Stephen Baxter, David Lodge & Adam Roberts @ British Library

June 8, 2011

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Science fiction authors (left to right) David Lodge, Adam Roberts and Stephen Baxter gathered at the British Library to discuss H. G. Wells and his legacy on the 8th of June 2011. This event is part of the British Library’s current exhibition, Out of this world: Science Fiction but not as you know it. David Lodge is  Honorary Professor of Modern English Literature at the University… [Read more…]

From Down Under to Hollywood (via Bloomsbury) – the colourful life of Elizabeth von Arnim

March 29, 2011

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Question: What do Sydney, New Zealand, the antipodean novelist Katherine Mansfield,  Prussian aristocracy,  Bertrand Russell’s brother, Bloomsbury, Bette Davis, H. G. Wells and Hollywood all have in common? Answer: Elizabeth von Arnim. The woman who links all these things was born Mary Annette Beauchamp (1866 – 1941), in the New Zealand township of Kiribilly Point. Her parents, Henry Herron Beauchamp… [Read more…]

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