by Catherine Davidson After eight years of hosting the Salon, Sarah Glazer has returned to New York, passing the care of one of London’s long running women’s literary salons onto a capable group of writers who will now share hosting in North and West London. What started in the living room of Diane Middlebrook will …
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by Catherine Temma Amanda Craig lead our final Salon under Sarah’s hosting. She read from her work in progress, a novel that follows up some of the characters from The Lie of the Land, a book India Knight in the Times called “terrific, page-turning, slyly funny” and Marion Keyes declared “absolutely magnificent.” Craig is one …
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Miranda Seymour–biographer, novelist and critic–discussed her new book, In Byron’s Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron’s Wife and Daughter, and her biography of Mary Shelley, which has just been reissued to mark the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. She spoke about the intersecting worlds–poetic and scientific– of three brilliant women. Byron’s daughter Ada …
by Sarah Glazer Our panel of three discussed how women writers influence, mentor, support and encourage one another. The panel included Jill Dawson, Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney. Jill Dawson, bestselling novelist most recently of The Crime Writer, is the founder of Gold Dust, a writer-to-writer mentoring scheme. Emma Sweeney is a Gold Dust …
On October 18th, we hosted Lyndall Gordon on the eve of the publication of her new book: Outsiders, Five Women Writers Who Changed the World. Sarah Glazer talked to Lyndall about how she picks her subjects, how “issues in the life grab you,” the problem of the second paragraph, research and writing the “hot draft” …
