Marina Warner
Stories come from the past but speak to the present, and I have found that I need to write stories as well as deconstruct them and place them in historical contexts, because I myself love reading works of imagination, and I would like to join the conversation with admired predecessors, who range from Apuleius to Virginia Woolf, Italo Calvino, and Angela Carter.”
Recent Diary Entries
‘Rachel Weeping for Her Children’: Memories of Massacre, Flight and Refuge – Anna Jameson Lecture 2026 now online!
On March 23 2026, Marina gave the Anna Jameson Lecture 2026 at the National Gallery. Fifty years after the publication of Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (1976), Marina Warner revisited the figure of the mater dolorosa th …
29 September 2026, 6-8pm, Richard Saltoun Gallery, ‘On Felicity Powell: In-Conversation with Marina Warner & Sarah Turner’
As part of the programme for The Studio of Felicity Powell exhibition (on display until 3 October 2026), Marina will be in conversation with Sarah Turner (Director of the Paul Mellon Centre). Marina Warner is a writer of cultural history, fiction and c …
ICYMI: ‘Adored Image: Celia Paul’s Ghosts’, London Review of Books
Marina wrote a piece about Celia Paul for the London Review of Books. Part of Vol. 48, No. 12 (9 July 2026); the essay is about a publication of Paul’s work recently published by MACK Books, Celia Paul: Works 1975-2025. The piece is available to read o …