British Poetry and Painting 18th-19th c. (ENGL 6060 Spring 2026)
A map to link to the Timeline and Gallery for our class, "British Poetry and Painting."
British Poetry and Painting 18th-19th c. (ENGL 6060 Spring 2026)
A study of British writers who were inspired by the visual arts, artists who adopted literary subjects, and writer/artists whose creative acts formed a composite of the two arts. This timeline tracks the progress of our class.
London
Charlotte and Anne traveled to London to meet with George Smith and his assistant, W.S. Williams, to convince him that there were indeed three sisters who wrote the novels. They debunked the belief that Currer (Charlotte), Acton (Anne), and Ellis (Emily) Bell were one person.
Haworth
This is where the sisters lived and created their famous novels.
EN 248, The Brontës, Skidmore College
Where do the characters in the novels of the Brontës travel? How about the members of the family themselves. On this map, we will chart the movements of the world of the Brontës, real and fictional.
Global Women Writers: Historical Contexts
Neither authors nor their literary texts exist in a vacuum.
Global Women Writers: Geographic Contexts
Over the course of the semester, we will study a range of global women writers from across multiple cultures and continents. This map represents (or will represent!) the geographies our authors represent, both in their biographies and in their literary texts. By the end of the semester, we will have a unified map representing our course’s global spread, making visible both the unique geographies our authors and readings represent as well as connections we might find among them.