Malvern Festival of Ideas 2023
Melissa Benn and Jane Martin (Y3)
Sat 04 Mar
|Malvern St James Girls School
Writer and campaigner, Melissa Benn, in conversation with social historian, Jane Martin, about the strength of political and family traditions - concerning ethics, ideas and ways of campaigning - and how this works its way down the generations.
Time & Location
04 Mar 2023, 11:00 – 12:00
Malvern St James Girls School, 15 Avenue Rd, Malvern WR14 3BA, UK
About the event
Melissa Benn comes from a long line of outspoken campaigners and prominent Parliamentarians. Her journalism has appeared in a wide range of publications, including the Independent, the Times, Public Finance, Marxism Today, Guardian, the New Statesman, Mslexia and Teach Secondary magazine, where she writes a regular column. Her essays have appeared in Storia, Feminist Review, Women: A Cultural Review, Race and Class, Forum, The Political Quarterly and in several collections of essays including Feminism and Censorship (Prism), Moving Targets:Women, Murder and Representation (Virago), New Gender Agenda (IPPR) and Women of the Revolution: Forty Years of Feminism (Guardian Books).
Melissa has published nine books, including two novels, Public Lives (Hamish Hamilton, 1994) and One of Us (Chatto and Windus, 2008), which was shortlisted for a British Book Award in 2008. It was described by the novelist Sara Paretsky as an ‘insider look at politics and power but a heartbreaking novel in…
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