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
23 March 2026 – Anna Jameson Lecture
Marina will be giving the 2026 Anna Jameson Lecture, titled ‘Rachel Weeping for Her Children’: Memories of Massacre, Flight, and Refuge. The lecture will explore the Massacre of the Innocents, the Flight into Egypt, and the representation of mothers in …
27 Nov – ‘Sanctuary, Safety, and Sacrilege’, All Souls, 15:30-17:00
Sanctuary offered safety to fugitives, regardless of their guilt or innocence, for a certain period – usually forty days (a quarantine). It held as a legal right until Henry VIII began its abolition. But the memory of it survives in the form of Sanctua …
25 Nov 2025 – The Cosmic Oval @ Warburg Institute, 6pm
Join for an evening of conversation at the Warburg Institute with writer Ella Finer and eminent, writer, mythographer and cultural historian Marina Warner. Ella Finer’s new book The Cosmic Oval takes a nocturnal entrance into an exploration of feminist …