Provocations: Lifescapes – An Evening with Ann Wroe

Join us for our second event in our new series of evening events at the Freud Museum titled Provocations, or Difficult Conversations in the Home of the Talking Cure. In-house only.

In tonight’s event Ann Wroe will be in conversation with the journalist Rachel Cooke on the subject of life-writing and capturing the soul.

For the last 20 years, Ann Wroe has written the Economist’s weekly obituary. In her new book, Lifescapes, a dazzling blend of memoir and biography, she reflects on this unlikely art, and the difficulties – perhaps the impossibility – of capturing a life on the page. Through the lives of those she has known both well and only fleetingly, as well as of those she has studied closely, she asks what makes a life, and what, in the end, we leave behind.

“Wroe is a genius, I believe, because she lights up every subject she touches.”     Hilary Mantel

SPEAKERS

Ann Wroe is the obituaries editor of the Economist. An acclaimed writer, her books include Being Shelley: The Poet’s Search for Himself, Francis: A Life in Songs, Perkin, Pilate (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Award and the W H Smith Award), and Six Facets of Light (a Spectator Book of the Year).

Rachel Cooke is an award-winning journalist. She works at the Observer and writes a column in the New Statesman. Her essays are broadcast regularly on Radio 3. She is the author of Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the 1950s, Kitchen Person: Notes on Cooking and Eating, and is currently editing The Virago Book of Friendship.

TICKETS

Tickets include a welcome drink and book signing.

Freud Museum Members and Patrons receive 20% off the standard ticket price on all events, courses, conferences and On Demand programming.

The purpose of this event is to raise funds for the Freud Museum London, which receives no regular public income.