This podcast is one of ten podcasts recorded at the 'Silence in the Archives' conference hosted by the Oxford Centre of Life-Writing at Wolfson College, Oxford on 7 November 2015.
This set of three lectures on ‘Memoir and Mortality’, were delivered as part of Panel 4a. The speakers were (in order) Wendy Jones, Birkbeck, University of London, ‘Silent as the Grave: The Life-Writing and Letters of Mrs Anna Margaret Birkbeck’, Sophie Coulombeau, Cardiff University, ‘Nata Nupta Obit: Hester Thrale Piozzi’s Post-Mortem’ and Joetta Harty, Robert Gordon University, ‘A Father’s Mother’s Memoir: The Notebooks of Charlotte Williams’.