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In this week’s mini, we’re discussing the life and work of literary critic Gillian Beer whose classic scholarly publication from 1983, Darwin’s Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth Century Fiction, should be essential reading for anyone who loves 19th century literature. 

Discussed in this episode: 

Darwin’s Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth Century Fiction by Gillian Beer

How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton 

“Gillian Beer: ‘I’m a Historical Remnant from the Great Days of Free Education” by Claire Armistead (The Guardian)

Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

Oscar Wilde

St. Anne’s College at Oxford

John Beer

Girton College at Cambridge

Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Rosamond Lehmann and Dusty Answer with Lucy Scholes

The Lost Daughter (2021 film) 

Meredith: A Change of Masks by Gillian Beer

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith 

The Romance by Gillian Beer

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Clare Hall at Cambridge 

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Arguing with the Past by Gillian Beer

Thomas Hardy 

Henry James

Stations Without Signs by Gillian Beer

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 

Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground by Gillian Beer

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll by Gillian Beer

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