Wednesday 27 March 2024 7.30pm THERE IS NO NEED TO BOOK FOR THIS EVENT
Anne Fisher (1719-78) began her working life as an author of educational books who ran a school for young ladies in Newcastle upon Tyne. She went on to run a successful printing business alongside her husband. At the time of her death she was described as one of the Literary Republic’s ‘highest female ornaments’ and it was said ‘she shall be respectfully mentioned to all succeeding Generations.’ Yet, over the following centuries she faded into relative obscurity.
In our March talk, we’ll look at both the achievements of this remarkable woman and the reasons why women are often missing from accounts of the past. She will be presented in her own right rather than someone’s daughter or husband, with a focus on the practicalities of being a working mother, her influential New Grammar, the success of her pragmatic approach to education, and her contributions to both the local print trade and the cultural life of the city she made her home.
Our Speaker
Barbara Crosbie is an Associate Professor of social and cultural history at Durham University. She specialises in age relations and the life cycle, and much of her work focuses on northern England. Her monograph Age Relations and Cultural Change in Eighteenth-Century England (2020) uses Newcastle upon Tyne as a case study to investigate generational change. She has also published on both the print trade and balladry in Newcastle, in addition to articles that explore the contributions Anne Fisher made to the cultural life of the town.
Our Venue
This event will take place at St George’s United Reformed Church on Newton Road, High Heaton NE7 7HP. It is on the corner with Boundary Gardens, the same block as Heaton Stannington’s football ground, Grounsell Park.
There are excellent public transport links including the numbers 18, 38, 52 and 553, which stop right by the church.
There is car parking on the surrounding streets.
Booking
There’s no need to book. Just turn up on the night.
