What does she think she looks like?

Rosemary Hill

Rosemary Hill delivers her LRB Winter Lecture on women and clothes, and what happens between them in life and literature. Subjects include Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, E.M. Delafield, Schiaparelli and Mae West.

Delivered at the British Museum in March 2018.

Read the lecture here.

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