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Rediscovering the \u201cWhitechapel Girl\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

They are remembered as the \u201cWhitechapel Boys,\u201d a group of writers and artists who came from the Jewish working-class district of London and forged promising careers through the early part of the twentieth century.\u00a0 Isaac Rosenberg wrote some of the finest poetry to emerge from the First World War.\u00a0 Mark Gertler and David Bomberg became significant modernist painters.<\/span><\/p>\n

What tends to get lost is that one of the \u201cBoys\u201d was a \u201cGirl.\u201d\u00a0 Clare Winsten, born Clara Birnberg, studied at the Slade from 1910 to 1912, and developed a fascinating body of work as a painter and sculptor.\u00a0 She became good friends with George Bernard Shaw, and illustrated three of his books.<\/span><\/p>\n

Clara Birnberg became Clare Winsten when she married the writer, Stephen Winsten.\u00a0 He was imprisoned as a conscientious objector during the First World War, as she gave birth to the first of the couple\u2019s two daughters.\u00a0 Stephen\u2019s imprisonment led to Clare\u2019s producing a series of haunting illustrations to Oscar Wilde\u2019s The Ballad of Reading Gaol<\/i>.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

As part of the exhibition, \u201cColours More Than Sentences: Illustrated Editions of The Ballad of Reading Gaol<\/i>,\u201d running at the Berkshire Record Office until 8th<\/sup> June, the University of Reading Department of English has invited scholar and curator, Sarah Macdougall of the Ben Uri Gallery, to share her new research on Winsten\u2019s life and career.\u00a0 Macdougall will be talking about her rediscovery of the \u201cWhitechapel Girl\u201d at a public lecture at the Berkshire Record Office in Reading at 6-15 p.m. on Thursday 19th<\/sup> April.<\/span><\/p>\n

The lecture and the exhibition are both free, but places for the lecture are limited.\u00a0 People can register in advance for the lecture by going to www.berkshirerecordoffice.org.uk\/ContactUs<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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