
Free Woman: Life, Liberation and Doris Lessing
Lara Feigel Interviewed by Margie Orford
Saturday, 24 March 2018
12:00pm
1 hour
Lincoln College: Oakeshott Room
£7 - £12.50
Literary critic and cultural historian Dr Lara Feigel explains how her intense exploration of the life and works of Doris Lessing was sparked by the realisation that the author captured perfectly her experiences as a writer, woman and mother.
Feigel’s book on Lessing is part personal memoir, part biography and part literary criticism. She says that at a time when she was dissatisfied with the constraints she felt she and her generation blindly accepted, Lessing offered an enticing vision of freedom.
Feigel is a senior lecturer in English at King’s College London specialising in the 1930s and the Second World War. She is also author of The Bitter Taste of Victory: Life, Love and Art in the Ruins of the Reich, and reviews for the Guardian and Observer.
Here she talks to journalist and crime fiction writer Margie Orford.
This event is part of a series on women in society sponsored by HSBC.
Biography & Memoir


































































-
Jem Poster and Sarah Burton
Creative Writing Course: Getting down to detail SOLD OUT
St Cross College 9:30am See this event -
Jane Ray
Mirrors and Masks: A Crafts Session
Story Museum: Long Room 10:00am See this event -
Tim Hayward
The Modern Kitchen: Objects that Changed the Way we Cook, Eat and Live
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 10:00am See this event -
Daniel Wakelin and Hannah Bower
Revolting Remedies from the Middle Ages
Worcester College: Lecture Theatre 10:00am See this event -
Rania Abouzeid Interviewed by Gideon Rachman
No Turning Back: Life, Loss and Hope in Wartime Syria
Weston Lecture Theatre 10:00am See this event -
Ruby Wax and Gelong Thubten Interviewed by Lucy Atkins
How to be Human: The Manual
Sheldonian Theatre 10:00am See this event -
Sally Bayley and Suzie Hanna
Girl with Dove: A Childhood Spent Graphically Reading
St Cross College 10:00am See this event -
Senia Paseta and Brooke Masters
Women who’ve Changed the World
Weston Library: Blackwell Hall 10:15am See this event -
Fiona Ross
Shakespeare Workshop: Julius Caesar
Story Museum: Story Exchange 11:00am See this event -
Sebastian Mallaby Interviewed by Brooke Masters
The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
Weston Lecture Theatre 11:30am See this event -
Lara Feigel Interviewed by Margie Orford
Free Woman: Life, Liberation and Doris Lessing
Lincoln College: Oakeshott Room 12:00pm See this event -
Nina Caplan
The Wandering Vine: Wine, The Romans and Me SOLD OUT
Lincoln College: Buttery Dining Room 12:00pm See this event -
Miriam Halahmy, Bali Rai and Anna Bassi Chaired by Miranda McKearney
Stories for Empathy and a Better World
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 12:00pm See this event -
Tim Bentinck Interviewed by Stephen Dunk
Being David Archer
Sheldonian Theatre 12:00pm See this event -
Kate Pankhurst
Fantastically Great Women Who Made History
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 12:00pm See this event -
Lyndall Gordon
Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World SOLD OUT
Worcester College: Lecture Theatre 12:00pm See this event -
David Pilling
The Growth Delusion: Why Economists are Getting it Wrong SOLD OUT
St Cross College 12:00pm See this event -
Miranda Seymour and Richard Ovenden
Masterclass: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein SOLD OUT
Weston Library: Bahari Room 12:00pm See this event -
Peter Crane, Jordan Goodman and Josepha Richard Introduced by Jane Owen
Botanical Art, Botanical Commerce: Britain meets China at the Dawn of Modernity
Weston Lecture Theatre 12:45pm See this event -
Simon Horobin
The English Language: A Very Short Introduction
Blackwell’s Marquee 1:15pm See this event -
Alastair Lack
Oxford Poets with Alastair Lack SOLD OUT
Meet outside St John’s College Lodge, St Giles 2:00pm See this event -
Holly Sterling
Creating Characters
Story Museum: Long Room 2:00pm See this event -
David Almond and Alex T Smith
The Tale of Angelino Brown
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 2:00pm See this event -
Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Geraldine McCaughrean and Julia Green Chaired by Damian Kelleher
Once upon an island . . .
Story Museum: Story Exchange 2:00pm See this event -
David Cannadine
Victorious Century: The United Kingdom 1800 -1906 SOLD OUT
Lincoln College: Oakeshott Room 2:00pm See this event -
Ann Thwaite Interviewed by Nicolette Jones
A A Milne and the Making of Goodbye Christopher Robin
Worcester College: Lecture Theatre 2:00pm See this event -
Rick Stein Interviewed by Matthew Stadlen
Rick Stein - A Life in Food
Sheldonian Theatre 2:00pm See this event -
Robin Butler and Michael Jago
Robin Butler: At the Heart of Power from Heath to Blair SOLD OUT
St Cross College 2:00pm See this event -
Anthony Barnett and Claire Fox Chaired by Stephen Law
The Oxford Debates: Our Fractured Society SOLD OUT
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 2:00pm See this event -
Lionel Barber, Rob Armstrong, Peggy Hollinger, Brooke Masters and Sebastian Payne
FT Live Leader Debate
Weston Lecture Theatre 2:00pm See this event -
Jo Ellison and Rob Armstrong
Is Fashion Dumb?
Weston Lecture Theatre 3:15pm See this event -
Sally Nicholls and Sheena Wilkinson Chaired by
Votes for Women! Suffragette Event
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 4:00pm See this event -
Ben Lyttleton
Football School
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 4:00pm See this event -
Wendy Cope
Anecdotal Evidence
Sheldonian Theatre 4:00pm See this event -
John Lloyd
The Power and the Story: The Global Battle for News and Information SOLD OUT
Lincoln College: Oakeshott Room 4:00pm See this event -
Rupert Younger and Frank Partnoy Interviewed by Alec Russell
The Activist Manifesto
Said Business School 4:00pm See this event -
John Burnside
Princeton University Press Lecture: On Henry Miller – Or, How to Be an Anarchist
St Cross College 4:00pm See this event -
Chris Newens, Alice Fishburn and Lorien Kite
How to Write a Dream Essay
Weston Lecture Theatre 4:45pm See this event -
Lynda Mugglestone
Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction
Blackwell’s Marquee 5:15pm See this event -
Sarah Crossan and Kwame Alexander Chaired by Kate Clanchy
Stories for Our Time
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 6:00pm See this event -
Bettany Hughes Interviewed by Claire Armitstead
Istanbul: A tale of Three Cities SOLD OUT
Worcester College: Lecture Theatre 6:00pm See this event -
Desmond de Silva
Madam, Where are your Mangoes: An Episodic Memoir CANCELLED
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 6:00pm See this event -
Sabrina Mahfouz and Shaista Aziz Chaired by Matthew Stadlen
The Things I Would Tell You. British Muslim Women Write
St Cross College 6:00pm See this event -
Mervyn King Interviewed by Lionel Barber
The FT Weekend Lecture. Ten Years On: The Global Economy after the Financial Crisis
Sheldonian Theatre 6:00pm See this event -
Charlie Covell Interviewed by Claire Armitstead
The End of the F***ing World: Adapting a Graphic Novel for Screen
Worcester College: Lecture Theatre 7:30pm See this event