Literature and Green Spaces

Professor Fiona Stafford is a member of the English Language and Literature Faculty here at Oxford and a Fellow of Somerville College. Her research areas include not only Romantic literature, focussing on such writers as Austen, Keats and Wordsworth, but also ideas of place and nature in literature, and the cultural history of flowers and trees.  A recent event organised by Professor Stafford aimed to bring these two areas of interest together and investigate the way in which the natural worlds impacts our reception of stories and literature. Flora Symington, 3rd year English undergraduate at Somerville, talks to her about the relationship between literature and green spaces.