Led by June Lawrence
The Victorian Short Story Reading Group has regular meetings to explore some of the exciting material from the golden age of the British short story, which began during the latter part of the nineteenth century.
This autumn, we will examine Victorian Gothic stories that reveal anxieties about dark liminal spaces, where the divide between life and death, mankind and beast, stands in doubt.
Continuing our exploration of Victorian Gothic we will look at Charlotte Perkins Gilman, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’. This month we turn to madness and Victorian patriarchy in a story which opens with a traditional Gothic setting, but which subverts our expectations.
Upon registration you will receive a link to an on-line copy of the text and, as it is a short story group, it will require no more than an evening’s preparation to read the required material.
Sessions take place monthly between October and June at a venue in Chiswick, London, W4 1TT, between 7 and 8.30 pm. At each session there is a brief introduction to the work, followed by a group discussion in a relaxed atmosphere, with wine and nibbles supplied.
