Gladstone Centre Christmas Lecture: Weather and the Arts in England

8pm

Writers and artists across the centuries, looking up at the same skies and walking in the same brisk air, have felt very different things. Introducing her new book Weatherland, Alexandra Harris asks why Shelley wanted to become a cloud and Ruskin wanted to bottle one, why the nineteenth century seemed so very damp and what Wyndham Lewis proposed as the best weather for modern times. 

'Brilliant' - Sunday Times

'Life-enhancing' - Independent 

'Gripping' - Observer 

Alexandra Harris teaches English at the University of Liverpool. She is the author of Romantic Moderns (2010), Virginia Woolf (2011), and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. 

Tickets for this event are free, on application. To apply for tickets, please call 01244 532350 or email [email protected].

A special accommodation rate including dinner, bed and breakfast, is priced at £40 per person in our best available room.