Women who've written books about interesting Women

Lambeth Libraries are delighted to bring you a wonderful evening with award-winning novelist Marion Molteno and biographers Helen Marquard and Caroline Studdert – a night of women writers who have written about inspiring women. Whether its travel writing, musical inspiration or ground-breaking journalism; through written diaries, first-hand accounts and just great prose, they take us to the Indian sub-continent, Nazi Germany, The Netherlands and the Finnish-Russian war… to name but a few locations.

Journeys Without a Map: A writer’s life

Award-winning novelist Marion Molteno takes us on a journey of discovery, tracing the origins of her fictional worlds. From the mountains of Tajikistan to remote parts of Africa, in small English towns or Indian literary festivals, she engages with people she meets and is inspired by them. Through these vignettes thread reflections on the creative process— why we write, and what fiction does for us.

The Musical Life: Hedwig Stein, Émigrée pianist

Helen Marquard’s search for a piano teacher led to Hedwig Stein who had fled Berlin in 1933 with her Russian Jewish husband, to start again here as concert pianists. Inspiring and vivid, Hedwig shared her history, and ideas on music, art, philosophy, and literature. Years later, having discovered that Hedwig had written a diary, Helen determined to bring Hedwig’s story to others.

Hellcat of The Hague: The Nel Slis Story

Caroline Studdert unearths the riveting tale of pioneering Dutch woman journalist Nel Slis, first Associated Press correspondent in The Hague after WWII. From island origins via European adventuring, nursing Finnish war-wounded, wartime monitoring for the BBC to reporting on Dutch Queens, royal scandals, emerging Europe. She becomes a legend in her own time, the exciting and trustworthy woman journalist every other journalist wants to interview and emulate.

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