Join your fellow Bedford College alumni for an exciting online event on Monday 18 January 2027, where Royal Holloway and Bedford New College's Professor Ruth Livesey will be delivering a talk on Bedford alumna, George Eliot.
About the talk
Ruth Livesey will be discussing marriage and relationships in George Eliot’s novel Middlemarch in the context of women’s history and education. She will be exploring Eliot’s attitudes to the major legal campaigns around married women’s property and divorce law reform in the nineteenth century and her friendship with the feminist campaigner Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon.
About the speaker
Professor Ruth Livesey is Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, where she leads the University’s research, innovation, and knowledge exchange agenda. She is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Thought, with research focused on Victorian literature and culture, particularly the work of George Eliot. Ruth also serves on the Advisory Board of the Arts and Humanities Research Council and has held national leadership roles supporting research development and excellence across the UK.
Event Details
Date: Monday 18 January 2027
Start time: 17:15 meeting lobby opens; 17:30 event begins.
End time: Talk concludes at approximately 18:30; lobby closes at approximately 19:30.
Location: This is an online talk delivered through MS Teams. Registrants will receive the meeting link a week before the event, with joining instructions.
While this event is free to attend, you must register to receive the meeting link.
