19th-century American women writers, American women poets
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Edith Wharton
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels, which explore the world of the privileged in America's Gilded Age, in which she lived, written in hindsight and with little mercy.
4 October 2018
Featuring: Hermione Lee, Bridget Bennett, Laura Rattray
Culture19th-century American poetsMembers of the American Academy of Arts and LettersGerman–English translators19th-century American short story writers, Ghost story writers20th-century American women writersAmerican autobiographers19th-century American women writers, American women poets19th-century American novelists, Novelists from New York (state)Knights of the Legion of HonourEmily Dickinson
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Emily Dickinson, the now-celebrated poet of Amherst, who was prolific yet chose to publish few of her poems.
11 May 2017
Featuring: Fiona Green, Linda Freedman, Paraic Finnerty