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 poets20th-century American women writersGerman–English translatorsGilded Age19th-century American women writers, American women poetsKnights of the Legion of Honour19th-century American novelists, Novelists from New York (state)19th-century American short story writers, Ghost story writersMembers of the American Academy of Arts and LettersAmerican autobiographers19th century20th centuryAmericaEmily 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