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LSE public lecture
How the East India Company, a dysfunctional commercial entity too big to fail, elevated and then spat out the controversial reformist visionary who lost the Company money but founded a world city - Singapore.
Victoria Glendinning is a prizewinning biographer, the author of Elizabeth Bowen, Vita, Edith Sitwell, Trollope and Leonard Woolf. She has also written three novels, The Grown-Ups, Electricity and Flight. She is a Vice-President of English PEN and fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Born in Yorkshire, she now lives in Somerset.
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Victoria Glendinning | talks |
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Date and Time: |
26 November 2012 at 6:30 pm |
Duration: | 1 hour 30 minutes |
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Venue: |
Wolfson Theatre |
Organised by: |
London School of Economics & Political Science |
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Tickets: |
Free |
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