John Gardener
16th May, IN-PERSON
Art Workers Guild
AGM: 5.00-6.30
Drinks reception and lecture: 6.30-8.00
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Ticket Price: £5.00
Wine reception 6.30 pm
Lecture at 7.00 pm
Dinner from 8.00 pm
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Byron, Percy Shelley and Thomas Love Peacock were famously keen on boats. What is little known is that Shelley was engaged on making two boats in the final years of his life: the famous one, Don Juan, which he renamed Ariel, and another, which was a steamship. The fact that Shelley was working on a steamship, to sail between Leghorn and Genoa, seems to go against the notion of Romanticism being antithetical to technology. Similarly, Shelley’s closest friend Thomas Love Peacock went onto superintend the building of the first iron gunboats, some of which took part in the first Anglo-Chinese War. This paper examines what the attraction of steamships would have been for Shelley and Peacock.
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Art Workers Guild
6 Queen Square
Bloomsbury
London WC1N 3AT
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Drinks 6.30-7.00
Lecture 7.00-8.00pm
There will be a dinner for those who wish to join, details will be confirmed closer to the time.
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Image: From Shelley’s 1819-20 Notebook, No. 2., The Huntington Library