The F W Bateson Memorial Lecture was founded by the pupils and friends of F. W. Bateson (1901-78). Bateson taught English at Corpus from 1946 to 1969, first as a lecturer and later as a teaching fellow. He was made an Emeritus Fellow of the College on his retirement in 1969. The lectures are held annually.
The 2025 lecture was delivered by Professor Daisy Hay at 5.00pm on Wednesday 5 February in the Corpus Auditorium. The title was 'Falling Over with Frances Burney'.
Watch the recording here.
Daisy Hay is Professor of English Literature and Life Writing at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives (2010); Mr and Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance (2015) and Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age (2022), as well as a short study of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (2018). She has published widely on the relationship between different forms of archival matter and biographical practice, in articles and essays exploring the archival presence (or absence) of, among other objects, hair, houses and different forms of manuscript ephemera. Prof Hay is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.