Madwoman

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Tickets

£6

Location

St John's Hall, Penzance

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Dates

Thu 6th July, 2023
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1:00 pm |
Finish time 2.30. The event will take place in the Alverne Room

About this event

Penzance Literary Festival presents Louisa Treger.

Writer Louisa Treger talks about her historical novel set in New York of the 1880s, ‘Madwoman’. It tells the true story of reporter Nellie Bly, who faked insanity to go undercover in an asylum. But when the door swung shut behind her, she found a world of horrors beyond her imagination, reawakening traumatic events of her childhood. Would she ever get out? (Spoiler alert: a pioneer of investigative journalism, Nellie went on to transform the male- dominated newspaper industry.)

Louisa Treger, a classical violinist, studied at the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School. of Music. She subsequently turned to literature, earning a Ph.D. in English at University College, London, where she was awarded the West Scholarship and the Rosa Morison Scholarship.
Her first novel, The Lodger, was published in 2014, followed by The Dragon Lady in 2019.

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01736363545 | https://theacornpenzance.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173643698

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