Talk: City Pleasures, City Dangers: The Fallen Woman in Victorian London

Keynote Speaker: Professor Lynda Nead, Pevsner Chair of History of Art, Birkbeck, University of London

Lynda Nead is a world leading authority in Victorian studies, whose work encompasses the history of British visual culture, representations of Victorian womanhood, the Victorian metropolis and the regulation of obscenity in the 19th century.

Drawing upon findings from her recent exhibition at the Foundling Hospital, London, The Fallen Woman (25 September 2015 – 3 January 2016), Professor Nead will examine the myth and reality of the fallen woman in the Victorian era, her troubled representation in the art and literature of the period and her operation as sign within an urban context.

Tuesday 24th May at 19.00

Theatre 2, Roland Levinsky Building

£6.60 concessions £4.50 Peninsula Arts Friends free
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