Fung Public Lecture | Post/Imperial Longing: Cornelia Sorabji in Victorian Oxford - Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

A figure of both curiosity and celebrity during her life, Cornelia Sorabji (1866-1954) has been recuperated as a feminist icon in both postimperial academic scholarship and popular culture. This talk reconsiders her time at Oxford in the late 19th century, where she trained as a lady barrister, exploring what a complex figure she was and is - and tracking how she has been transformed over the last thirty years into an object of postimperial desire, if not nostalgia as well. --- Event Details: https://my.princeton.edu/rsvp?id=1962106