Hetta Howes: Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife

Name: Hetta Howes: Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife
Start: 2024-10-27T12:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-10-27T13:00:00+00:00
Location: National Centre for Writing

Sun 27 Oct

12pm - 1pm : National Centre for Writing

Non-fiction History Under £10

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Few medieval women had the chance to write about their lives. But there are four who did...

Join author Hetta Howes on an unforgettable journey into the minds and lives of medieval women in her groundbreaking new book, Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife.

Focussing on the stories of four iconic women writers, Howes unlocks the secrets of women's lives, so often silent and inconspicuous in our histories, and shows us the medieval world as we've never seen it before.

Meet four extraordinary women: Marie de France, a poet; Julian of Norwich, a mystic and anchoress; Christine de Pizan, a widow and court writer; and Margery Kempe, a no-good wife.

Tickets £8

Full of surprises and packed with thrilling details, this is an important, eye-opening book.

Alice Loxton author of Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives

Hetta Howes

Dr Hetta Howes is a Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern Literature at City, University of London, and a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. She has a BA and MPhil from Cambridge University and a PhD from Queen Mary, University of London.

Her academic book Transformative Waters in Late Medieval Literature was published by Boydell and Brewer in 2021. Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife will be her first book for a popular audience.

Hetta Howes: Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife

12pm - 1pm : National Centre for Writing

Few medieval women had the chance to write about their lives. But there are four who did...

Tickets £8

Hetta Howes

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