As part of the Play on Words Festival with Speaker: Rachel Trethewey
Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie and Sylvia Plath are three of our most famous authors, this talk explores the story of the remarkable mothers who shaped them. Born and educated in Torquay, Rachel Trethewey read History at Oxford University, where she won the Philip Geddes Prize for Student journalism. After working for the Daily Express, The Daily Mail and Westcountry Television, she attained a PhD from Exeter University. Rachel has written five books and her latest, Mothers of the Mind, has received the ‘Antonia Fraser Award’ from the Society of Authors. Rachel is an elected fellow of the Royal Historical Society and lives in Devon with her family. Genre: Historical Biographies.
Thursday 25 April, 12:30pm – 1.30pm