THE MARTINEAU SOCIETY ANNUAL CONFERENCE
MANCHESTER, 23rd -26th July 2019, The Chancellor’s Hotel
PROGRAMME
Tuesday 23rd July
15.00 Arrival and registration
15.00-16.00 Martineau Society Committee Meeting
17.15 Welcome: John Vint, Chair of the Society
17.30-18.30 Opening Lecture by Alan Fowler, “Manchester: the First Industrial City”
19.30 Dinner
Wednesday 24th July
09.30 Depart for Visit to Elizabeth Gaskell House
10.00-11.30 Gaskell House Visit (including refreshments)
12.00-12.45 Iain Crawford, “The Sickness and Health of the People of Bleaburn’: HM’s Forgotten Contribution to Household Words”
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.45 Ann Peart, Cross Street Chapel’s Martineau Connections
14.45-15.30 Beth Torgerson, “Martineau’s – and other Victorians’– Use and Practice of Mesmerism as Alternative Health Care”
15.30-15.45 Coffee/tea
15.45-16.30 Josie McQuail, “Eyes of the World: Martineau’s Eastern Life”
19.30 Dinner
After-dinner Quiz?
Thursday 25th July
09.30-10.15 Sue Brown, “James Martineau’s Impact on Bright Young Ladies”
10.15-11.00 Keiko Funaki, “Harriet Martineau and Ireland”
11.15-12.15 Annual General Meeting
12.30-13.30 Lunch
from 14.00 Depart for Manchester City Centre and Visits
15.20-16.20 Visit to Chethams Library – the oldest public library in the English-speaking world (where Marx worked with Engels)
from 16.30 Optional Visits to the Manchester Mechanics Institute or Cross Street Chapel
19.30 Conference Dinner
After-dinner Auction?
Friday 26th July
09.30-10.15 Gaby Weiner, “Review of Harriet Martineau, Miss J and Ellen McKee, by G. Peter Winnington”
10.15-11.00 Bob Gamble, “My Dear Bishop”
11.00-11.15Coffee/tea
11.15-12.00 Julie Donovan, “The Response of Irish Writers to Harriet Martineau’s Works on Ireland”
12.00–12.45 Lyn Holt, “Infamous Childhoods and Famous Writers”
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00 Depart