Virtual Adult Lecture-Christmas Ghost Stories: A Victorian Tradition

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Virtual Adult Lecture: Christmas Ghost Stories: A Victorian Tradition

Monday, December 12, 20227:00 PM | Mountain Time (US & Canada) | 1 hr 30 mins When it's time, join the Webex meeting here.Join from the meeting linkhttps://slcolibrary.webex.com/slcolibrary/j.php?MTID=m71681068b1153aac471152540e1f89b7

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Leslee Thorne-Murphy will highlight the popularity of Christmas ghost stories in Victorian England, including Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol, as she discusses the traditions that inspired and haunted the era’s celebrations.

Leslee Thorne-Murphy is a BYU associate professor of English and associate dean of the College of Humanities. She teaches courses in British literature, and her specialty is Victorian literature—the era of Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot. She is particularly interested in the vast amount of literature published during this period to depict and help ameliorate the conditions of the poor during the Industrial Revolution. Her book, Bazaar Literature: Charity, Advocacy, and Parody, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in December. Along with her students, she edits The Victorian Short Fiction Project, a digital anthology of Victorian short fiction.