Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

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Laura Rattray

Reader in North American Literature at the University of Glasgow

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Covers topics in categories such as:

Culture19th-century American poetsMembers of the American Academy of Arts and LettersGerman–English translatorsAmerican autobiographers19th-century American novelists, Novelists from New York (state)Knights of the Legion of Honour19th-century American short story writers, Ghost story writers20th-century American women writers19th-century American women writers, American women poets

  1. 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

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    Also featuring: Hermione Lee, Bridget Bennett

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    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 Honour