A welcome story of change as perceptions of women improve

From the Virgin Mary to females in film and fairytales, author Marina Warner believes perceptions of women are improving, writes Marjorie Brennan

A CONVERSATION with the esteemed author and essayist, Marina Warner, wanders down many engaging and enlightening avenues. Warner is looking forward to her upcoming visit to the West Cork Literary Festival and speaks fondly of her time working in the North and holidays spent in the West.

“I’m delighted to be coming back to West Cork, that part of Ireland is very beautiful. I was also a visiting professor in the North at the University of Ulster. One of the last times I was in Ireland was for a big exhibition by my friend [artist] Dorothy Cross; I also went to stay with her in Connemara. I used to go to Ireland a lot because some of my early work interacted with a lot of the preoccupations of those days.”