Reading Groups

The Woman Artist with Anne Fernald

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Five Sessions Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT November 1, 2023 to January 31, 2024

The Center for Fiction

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This group has reached its capacity. To join the waitlist, please email Sebastian Mazza at [email protected].

Four classic novels about creative women, by Virginia Woolf, Jessie Fauset, Doris Lessing, and Margaret Atwood. These novels take us into the creative process, explore the insecurities, jealousies, ambitions, struggles, and achievements of women artists.

Sessions will begin with a conversation starter and a mini-lecture, and then we will open the conversation up to the group. I always come with a handful of passages illuminating major ideas, character arcs, or stylistic flourishes, but the group shapes the conversation. It’s an unstructured, joyful, gently guided conversation.

Meeting Details:
Wednesdays, 6–7:30pm ET
11/1, 11/29, 12/13, 1/10, 1/31
In Person at The Center for Fiction

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Led By

  • AnneFernald

    Anne Fernald

    Anne Fernald

    Anne E. Fernald is Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Fordham University. She is the editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Mrs. Dalloway and has published and edited books and articles on Virginia Woolf with special attention to feminism and intertextuality, as well as on modernism and feminism more generally. She is one of the editors of The Norton Reader and co-editor of the journal Modernism/modernity 2019-23. She is currently at work on a collective biography of modernist women writers.

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