Nov. 5: 'Life, Times of William Allingham'
Library to host fellow's presentation on 'Life and Times of William Allingham'
10:10 a.m., Oct. 16, 2014--Natasha Moore, the recipient of the 2014 University of Delaware Library/Delaware Art Museum Fellowship in Pre-Raphaelite Studies, will give a presentation about her research for her biography, The Literary Life and Times of William Allingham on Wednesday, Nov. 5.
Her talk, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 5 p.m. in the Class of 1941 Lecture Room in the Morris Library. Refreshments of wine and cheese will follow in the same room.
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The 19th-century Anglo-Irish poet William Allingham (1824-89) now known almost exclusively, if at all, for his poem The Fairies (“Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren’t go a-hunting, For fear of little men.”) was a fascinating man of letters closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelites.
A diarist, correspondent, critic, magazine editor, intimate friend to such eminent Victorians as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, George Eliot, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Thomas Carlyle, and husband to illustrator and watercolorist Helen Allingham (née Paterson), he has much to offer.
Moore’s research into the mass of unpublished materials relating to Allingham’s life and work will allow her to produce the first full-length critical study of this neglected but important literary figure.
While in residence in Delaware from Oct. 18 through Nov. 12, Moore will be using the resources of both the University of Delaware Library, including the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, and the Delaware Art Museum.
In March 2015 she will curate the exhibition, "At Home with Victorian Authors and Artists: William and Helen Allingham, from the Collections of Grolier Club Members," at the Grolier Club in New York.
Moore received a doctorate in English from Queens’ College, University of Cambridge; a bachelor of arts in English (Honors Class I and University Medal) and a bachelor of arts in French (Honors Class I), both from the University of Sydney.
Acceptances are encouraged and will be taken at libraryrsvp@winsor.lib.udel.edu, although walk-ins are also welcome.