Please join us for a Zoom talk by Ana Parejo Vadillo, Reader in Victorian Literature and Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. Dr. Vadillo is the 2024 Amy P. Goldman Fellow in Pre-Raphaelite Studies at the Delaware Art Museum and University of Delaware.
Dr. Vadillo is currently in Delaware carrying out research on the queer poets Michael Field, which was the joint pseudonym of aunt and niece Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper. Dr. Vadillo is examining Field’s relationship to Pre-Raphaelite artists and writers, the Arts and Crafts movement, and Decadence.
This talk will focus on one aspect of Dr. Vadillo’s study: the art of bookbinding, which made Field’s books not only works of literature but also beautiful objects.
Please register for the Zoom talk via the link above.
Image: Michael Field, The Tragic Mary, (cover detail). London: George Bell and Sons, 1890. Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press.