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'Unexpectedly Modern': Dr Sandeep Parmar to give a paper on Paris by Hope Mirrlees

Friday, 17 Feb 2012

The Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees Dr Sandeep Parmar, editor of the Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees, will be giving a paper entitled 'Unexpectedly Modern: Hope Mirrlees's Paris' at the Northern Modernism Seminar in Durham on 17 February. Dr Parmar, the first scholar to gain access to the archives of Mirrlees at Newnham College, is a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge.

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Hosted in conjunction with the “Outrageously Modern!” exhibition of Fin-De-Siècle and Modernist Magazines, the seminar will take place at Durham University. The event is free of charge, but attendees must register with to ensure a place: email Dr. Simon James at s.j.james@durham.ac.uk by 1 February 2012.










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