An Evening With Sarah Watling - Noble Savages: Discovering the Olivier Sisters

Tuesday 22nd March at 7pm
Noble Savages: Discovering the Olivier Sisters  

The Olivier sisters – Margery, Noël, Daphne and Brynhild – marched for suffrage and studied at university. They were fascinating and accomplished early twentieth-century women. So when Sarah Watling wanted to write about them, why did she find that everything she read about them was written by men who were really only interested in the sisters’ brief relationship with the poet Rupert Brooke? In her talk Sarah will explore some of what she found, and her mission to write the sisters – and other women – back into the record books. 

Sarah Watling was the 2016 winner of the Tony Lothian Prize and a 2020 Silvers Grant recipient. She holds degrees from the University of Cambridge and the University of London. Her biography of the four Olivier sisters, Noble Savages, was published in 2019. It has been translated into Dutch and is forthcoming in German. Her next book, about the Spanish Civil War, is forthcoming from Jonathan Cape and Knopf. 


In-person tickets start at £11. Dinner and book bundles are also available. Click here to order.

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