Wendy Moore - Author and freelance writer

News and Events
I give regular talks on the story of Mary Eleanor Bowes and how she triumphed over her brutal husband Andrew Robinson Bowes as well as on Georgian marriage and divorce in general. I also talk on the life of John Hunter, pioneer of modern surgery, and on Georgian medicine in general. If you want me to give a talk at your book group or other event please get in touch by email
I'm now booking talks for 2012.

Coming up

2012

25 February - 1 pm - Gibside - I will be giving a talk about the life of Mary Eleanor Bowes to celebrate her birthday at Gibside NT. Booking essential. More details.

24 April - 6 - 7 pm - Woolwich - I will be giving a talk at Woolwich Library on Wedlock.

Past events

2012

14 January - The Scandalous Life and Mysterious After Life of Rev Dr William Dodd. I gave a talk to the Johnson Society of London on Rev Dr William Dodd, the king's curate who John Hunter tried to raise from the dead after he was hanged for forgery in 1777.

20110 am - Houghton Feast Literature Festival: I gave a talk on Mary Eleanor Bowes and my book Wedlock at Sunderland City Library.

7 December

I was honoured to give a talk in aid of the charity CAADA, Co-ordinated Action Against Domestic Abuse, at the National Portrait Gallery, London.  

30 November

It was a pleasure to speak at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh on John Hunter, bodysnatching and the birth of modern surgery.

3 Nov

I gave a talk on The Joys and Perils of Georgian Marriage at Kew Palace, London.

12 Oct

Durham Book Festival: I gave a talk on Mary Eleanor Bowes's miserable marriage and triumphant divorce at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, as part of Durham Literary Festival. 

13 June

I enjoyed a return visit to the Hunterian Society to talk about Mary Eleanor Bowes and her relationship with the surgeon John Hunter.

10 May

I enjoyed speaking to the Suffolk Book League in Ipswich.

19 April

It was a pleasure to talk about  the joys and perils of Georgian marriage at no 1 Royal Crescent Bath. 

16 March

I enjoyed speaking to the 33 Club in Stockton.

8 March

It was a pleasure to return to Croydon Medical Society to give a talk on my current book Wedlock.

2010

Nov

I gave two talks on my book Wedlock in County Durham - at Bishop Auckland and  Consett libraries on 18 November as part of History Month.

Sept

I enjoyed talking about Wedlock at the book group of the charity Parkinson UK on 29 September. My thanks to Cilla Massey and everyone else involved.

May

I was interviewed on Radio Newcastle in a special programme live from Gibside on Friday 28 May.

April

Radio 4 interview

I was interviewed by Australian gastroenterologist Barry Marshall about his hero John Hunter on Radio 4 on 22 April.   

2009

Talk at Durham Festival

I enjoyed speaking about my book at Durham Book Festival on 29 October 2009. Thanks to everyone involved.

Talk in Newcastle

I was delighted to speak at the Miners' Institute, Newcastle, for an event hosted by the North East England History Institute, on 14 May 2009. 

Talk at Gibside NT for Hexham Book Festival

It was a huge pleasure to give a talk at Gibside, National Trust, Mary Eleanor Bowes's former home, as a guest of Hexham Book Festival on 25 April 2009. My thanks to everyone involved.

I enjoyed giving a talk at Benjamin Franklin House on 20 April. Thanks to the organisers.

Talk at the Royal College of Surgeons, London - 'The surgeon, the countess, her husband and his lover'

I was delighted to give my first talk on my new book Wedlock at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 19 March 2009. For details of other talks in the season, Sex and Scandal in the 18th Century, click here.

Woman's Hour

Hear my interview on Woman's Hour in a discussion about 18th century marriage.

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November 2008

Croydon Medical Society

I enjoyed talking to the Croydon Medical Society about John Hunter on 20 November 2008.

September 2008

University of North Carolina

I was privileged in giving lectures on John Hunter to the Bullitt History of Medicine Club on 23 September and to the surgeons' Grand Rounds on 24 September. My thanks to Dr Liz Dreesen and everyone else who helped make my visit memorable.

Congress of Neurological Surgeons

I was delighted to give the Third Annual John Thompson History of Medicine Lecture to the Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeoons in Orlando, Florida, on John Hunter on 25 September 2008.

October 2007

Marsh Biography Award

The Knife Man was shortlisted for the 2007 Marsh Biography Award. The award is presented biennially for a work that is historically important, records significant human achievement and is representative of the highest standards of written English and serious research.

Talk at Benjamin Franklin's House, Craven Street, London

Talk at Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle

I enjoyed talking and meeting readers (including descendants of the Stoney family!) at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, on 10 September. 

TV Book Club

'Wedlock' was discussed on the Channel 4 TV Book Club on 21 and 22 March.

US paperback

The US paperback Wedlock: The True Story of the Disastrous Marriage and Remarkable Divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore was published by Three Rivers Press (an imprint of Random House) in March 2010 and is on sale now.

6.30 to 8 pm