Collective emotions: Jane Harrison and the interplay of myth and ritual in Ancient Greece

Jane Harrison is part of the history of Bloomsbury, and of women’s university education in the late nineteenth century. She studied under Sir Charles Newton at the British Museum; and it was largely on account of the talks which she herself gave at the Museum that she won a fellowship at Newnham College Cambridge in 1898.  After retirement she moved back to Bloomsbury, and from 1925 lived on Mecklenburgh Street with her partner Hope Mirrlees. The talk will look at Harrison’s life and her cutting-edge theories on Greek art, ritual and myth.

Sue Blundell is a playwright and academic writer. Her books include Women in Ancient Greece and The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece.

The talk will include a Q&A session. Attendees are invited to view a display of items from the Senate House Library collections following the talk.

Please register via the Pascal Theatre Company website.

The event forms part of Pascal Theatre Company’s two-year heritage lottery project Women for Women: 19th century women in Bloomsbury. For more information on the project see Introduction and Women on the Pascal Theatre Company website.