Lucy Hutchinson - Talk by Professor David Norbrook (University of Oxford)

As part of the Othello's Island Conference 2018, Early Modern Women Writers' Colloquium, Professor David Norbrook (University of Oxford) will talk on "Lucy Hutchinson without the Hutchinsons: the Accidents of Marriage and early Modern Women's Life Writing".

Lucy Hutchinson (1620–1681) was an English translator, poet, and biographer, and the first person to translate the complete text of Lucretius's De rerum natura ("On the Nature of Things") from Latin into English.

David Norbrook was Merton Professor of English literature at Oxford University from 2002 to 2014, and is a now an Emeritus Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He specializes in literature, politics and historiography in the early modern period, and in early modern women's writing. He is currently writing a biography and edition of Lucy Hutchinson. He teaches literary theory and early modern texts, early modern women writers, and Shakespeare, Milton and Marvell. Before his current role, he taught at the University of Maryland.

The lecture will be in English.

Presented as part of the Othello's Island Conference on Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, and the Nicosia Medieval Festival 2018