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Kristin Bluemel, Ph.D., associate dean of the McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences, professor of English, and Wayne D. McMurray Endowed Chair in the Humanities, delivered an invited lecture at the Lit & Phil Library in Newcastle, England, on July 7. The presentation highlighted how women wood engravers helped reshape the visual and literary landscape of modern Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her talk, “Enchanted Wood: Engraving a Place for Women Artists in Rural England,” was based on her recent book published on the same topic<\/a>. Bluemel spoke to a packed room, with audience members ranging from wood engraving collectors and\u00a0enthusiasts to artists, librarians, and academics. Newcastle was the\u00a0home of Thomas Bewick, an Enlightenment-era\u00a0engraver\u00a0and naturalist who inspired the art and book illustration\u00a0of the\u00a0twentieth-century women artists Bluemel features in her book.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lit & Phil<\/a> was founded in Newcastle\u00a0in 1793,\u00a0around the same time that Bewick was active. It is an independent library free to all visitors who enter its historic building\u00a0in the city\u00a0center of Newcastle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the lecture, The Bewick Society hosted an outing<\/a> in Bluemel’s honor to the National Trust’s Cherryburn<\/a><\/a>, Bewick’s birthplace museum in the rural Tyne Valley.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kristin Bluemel lectures on “Enchanted Wood” at the Lit & Phil Library in Newcastle, England.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Thomas Bewick’s wood engraving of a rider trapped in the kite string of three ragged country boys\u00a0from his second volume of\u00a0“British Birds”\u00a0(1804), the predecessor to\u00a0all modern field guides to\u00a0birds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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