Speaker: Helen Pleasance
Craft: General interest
Experience: No experience required
Summary: Helen untangles some of the meanings knitting takes on in fiction.
Description
This talk draws on twentieth-century women writers such as Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Whipple, Elizabeth Taylor, Elizabeth Jane Howard and Edna O’Brien. It will untangle some of the rich psychological and social meanings knitting takes on in their fiction. From duty to desire, revery to frustration, knitting creates a space for women’s self-expression.
About the speaker
Helen Pleasance is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at York St John University. She is working on a hybrid memoir about the tangled matrilineal threads between three generations of women in her family.
instagram: @helenpleasancestitching
Email: helen.pleasance@btopenworld.com
