In collaboration with The Berry & District Historical Society, we are delighted to announce a unique presentation by one of Australia’s most renowned literary experts on the fascinating connection between Alexander Berry and Mary Shelley, author of the famous 1818 gothic novel, Frankenstein, as well as with her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
Professor Deirdre Coleman, Robert Wallace Chair of English at the University of Melbourne and one of Australia’s eminent literary and cultural studies experts will deliver a talk on this fascinating aspect of Shoalhaven cultural and intellectual history.
Local history buffs know that Alexander Berry married Elizabeth, the sister of his business partner Edward Wollstonecraft. Professor Coleman will unpack how the beliefs and practices of the two colonial entrepreneurs connect with Mary Wollstonecraft’s thinking about commerce, morality and the ‘proper’ spheres for men and women.
As Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein turns 200, her legacy is carried on by perhaps an unlikely inheritor: An Australian artist.
Mothers, monsters, and transhuman experiments — these are some of the common motifs in Patricia Piccinini’s hyperrealist sculptures, currently surveyed at Queensland’s Gallery of Modern Art, in the exhibition Curious Affection. Read more here…
We invite you to join us on:
when: Sunday 20 May 2018
Where: Uniting Church Hall, Berry
Time: 3:00pm
Duration: One hour followed by refreshments
Cost is $25 pp and tickets are available online from Trybooking and from Berry Music Shop
Enquiries: berrymuseum@bigpond.com
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