An event part of Brontë Society AGM & June Festival
Friday 13 June, 4.00pm, West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth
Stevie Davies joins us to discuss her 2013 publication, Awakenings.
In Wiltshire in 1860, one year after Darwin's explosive publication of The Origin of Species, sisters Anna and Beatirce Pentecost awaken to a world shattered by science, radicalism and the stirrings of feminist rebellion; a world of charismatic religious movements, Spiritualist séances, bitter loss and medical trauma. Historical figures of the Victorian epoch wander through the backdrop of the novel. Each of the principal characters is riven by inner contradictions, but who will survive when the sisters fall into a fatal conflict with one another?
Tea and coffee available
Tickets: £6