{"id":17361,"date":"2022-11-18T06:04:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T06:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?p=17361"},"modified":"2023-02-18T16:25:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T16:25:58","slug":"barbara-heritage-on-stages-of-composition-in-charlotte-brontes-fair-copy-of-shirley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/barbara-heritage-on-stages-of-composition-in-charlotte-brontes-fair-copy-of-shirley\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Heritage on Charlotte Bront\u00eb\u2019s Fair Copy of “Shirley”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Research Group Speaks
\nEpisode 10
\n<\/em>Saturday 18 February 2023 online
\n1:00\u20132:30 pm EST (GMT-5) by Zoom<\/h2>\n

“Stages of Composition:
\nCharlotte Bront\u00eb\u2019s Fair-Copy Manuscript for Shirley<\/em>“<\/h2>\n

Barbara Heritage<\/h3>\n
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London, National Portrait Gallery, Chalk drawing (1850) of Charlotte Charlotte Bront\u00eb (Mrs A.B. Nicholls) by George Richmond (1809-1898). Image Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n

[Posted on 18 November 2022<\/em>]<\/p>\n

For Episode 10<\/strong> in the online series of The Research Group Speaks<\/a>, Barbara Heritage<\/a> of the Rare Book School<\/a> at the University of Virginia will talk about her cumulative work on benefits of examining the material evidence for the processes of creation by a major English author in shaping the text for a next novel.\u00a0 Please note that registration is required (see below).<\/p>\n

The Subject for the Episode<\/h3>\n

Barbara will examine aspects of the work \u2014 and evidence for work-in-progress \u2014 in the writings of Charlotte Bront\u00eb<\/a> (1816\u20131855) at a significant period in her life, after the successful publication of her first novel and after the deaths of the last of her living siblings.\u00a0 On Charlotte’s life, see, for example, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:<\/p>\n