Harriet Constable & Elle Machray: Feminist Revisionist History

  • Tue 20 Aug 14:15 - 15:15
  • EFI Courtyard Theatre
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Harriet Constable & Elle Machray: Feminist Revisionist History

Venice, 1707. An orphaned girl is determined to become the city’s greatest violinist against the odds in Harriet Constable’s The Instrumentalist. London, 1770. A once enslaved woman is determined to take down the transatlantic slave trade in Elle Machray’s Remember, Remember. Join the authors – both named Observer Debut Novelists of 2024 – as they discuss their 18th century revisionist histories.

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