Exe-X South West Alumnae talk and networking event - FULLY BOOKED

Our alumnae (female) graduate event will start with informal networking, followed by a talk from Devon historian and popular Exe-X speaker Rachel Trethewey, on her new book ‘Mothers of the Mind’, hot off the press. Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie and Sylvia Plath are three of our most famous authors and, for the first time, Rachel tells the story of the remarkable mothers who shaped them. Julia Stephen, Clara Miller and Aurelia Plath were fascinating women in their own rights and their relationships with their daughters were exceptional; profoundly influencing the writers’ lives, literature and attitude to feminism. Too often in the past Virginia, Agatha and Sylvia have been defined by their lovers. Rachel’s study redresses the balance, charting the complex, often contradictory bond between these women and their mothers.