Deborah Wynne's guest appearances

Deborah Wynne

Speak Up Talk Radio Network

GLADcast

The Authors Show

James Martin

Steve Snyder

James Ross

Julie Broad

Jenny Lewis

Will Harris

Kenny G

Roger Johns

Simon Brett

Chuck Miller

Miranda Kaufmann

Dave Hickman

Charlotte Higgins

Danny Dorling

Emily Brontë

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Deborah Wynne Firebird

Deborah Wynne began writing as a young girl, filling dog-eared spiral notebooks with whimsical stories and terrible poetry. A University of Colorado alumna, Ms. Wynne entered the workforce listening to the advice of her parents who said, “Get a good government job.” She subsequently had two distinctly different careers in municipal government before becoming a...

Deborah Wynne Firebird Book Award Winner & Author Interview

Deborah Wynne began writing as a young girl, filling dog-eared spiral notebooks with whimsical stories and terrible poetry. A University of Colorado alumna, Ms. Wynne entered the workforce listening to the advice of her parents who said, “Get a good government job.” She subsequently had two distinctly different careers in municipal government before becoming...

Author Deborah Wynne Speaks Up About Her Book OPENING ACT

In Victorian Britain rags were recycled into paper. Many of the urban poor made their living from collecting rags which were processed in paper mills before eventually being transformed into paper for books and newspapers. The personnel involved in recycling – beggars, orphaned children, rag-and-bone collectors and dealers in waste – featured in the fiction of the period, particularly in the work of Charles Dickens. He was fascinated by the ability of cloth to be transformed into different things, reflecting on how clothing of the very poor was converted into the paper on which his novels were printed. The child in rags appears repeatedly in his novels, whether Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, or Florence Dombey, and Dickens showed that ragged children could be ‘recycled’ into educated citizens, just as the filthy rags they wore could be recycled into books. Deborah Wynne explorest Dickens’s fascination with the link between rags, children and paper and hear some of the strange stories associated with Victorian textile recycling.

Gladfest 2019: Deborah Wynne - Reading Victorian Rags