
Laura Rattray
Reader in North American Literature at the University of Glasgow
1 episode
Covers topics in categories such as:
Culture19th-century American poetsMembers of the American Academy of Arts and LettersGerman–English translatorsKnights of the Legion of HonourAmerican autobiographersNovelists from New York (state), 19th-century American novelists20th-century American women writersGhost story writers, 19th-century American short story writers19th-century American women writers, American women poets
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
Also featuring: Hermione Lee, Bridget Bennett
Culture19th-century American poetsMembers of the American Academy of Arts and LettersGerman–English translatorsKnights of the Legion of HonourAmerican autobiographers20th-century American women writersNovelists from New York (state), 19th-century American novelistsGhost story writers, 19th-century American short story writers19th-century American women writers, American women poets