Reading Group: 'The Christening'

Name: Reading Group: 'The Christening'
Start: 2026-08-26T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-08-26T20:30:00+01:00
Location: The D.H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum

Schedule

Wed Aug 26 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

The D.H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum | Eastwood, EN

Dr Andrew Harrison (University of Nottingham) will lead this reading group on D.H. Lawrence's 'The Christening'.
About this Event

This reading group will consider D. H. Lawrence's 'The Christening', a fascinating early short story set in Eastwood, in which the daughter of a retired miner has brought shame on her family by having a child outside marriage. Lawrence reverses traditional moral norms by presenting passion and the daughter's physical affection for her child as vital, in contrast to the distorting patriarchal perspectives of her father and the clergyman who comes in secret to the family's home in order to baptise it.

Attendees have the option to visit the museum before the event starts.

Cover image; Dallas Museum of Art, Sleepy Baby, Mary Cassatt, c. 1910. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/