Literary screenprints

‘Live Your Best’ A5 print

Harriet Martineau (1802-1876), a journalist and writer, is regarded by many as the first significant British woman sociologist.

The daughter of a Unitarian Norwich cloth manufacturer, she shot to fame in 1832 as author of Illustrations of Political Economy – 25 short stories showing how economic conditions impacted on the lives of ordinary people in a variety of social environments. She visited America in 1834 for two years and identified with the anti-slavery cause, which she promoted in her journalism for the rest of her working life. She also wrote fiction, travel books on America and the Middle East, and political analyses of conditions in India and Ireland.

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£6

‘Live Your Best’ A4 print (UK postage)

£10

‘The Wonders We Seek’ A5 print

Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English physician, philosopher, botanist, and writer, best known for his book of reflections, Religio Medici. He lived and worked in Norwich from 1636 until his death in 1682.

Browne also gave the English language many new words. Some were related to his profession as a doctor: ‘coma’, ‘hallucination’ and ‘medical’ itself. He was also a great naturalist and named birds such as the mistle thrush and the shearwater, and was the first person to document the Norfolk dialect.

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£6

‘Await the Light’ A5 print

Meir ben Elijah (c. 13th Century) is England’s only medieval Hebrew poet and the first known poet of Norwich. He lived in the city and was among approximately 2,000 Jews exiled from England in 1290. We know next to nothing else about him: not his date of birth, what he looked like or how he spent his life in medieval England.
We can assume that Meir’s poems were written in the second half of the 13th century, but it is not known what happened to them over the following 650 years. Twenty piyyutim – poems of lament, written in Hebrew – by Meir were discovered in the 1880s and the ancient manuscripts are now preserved in Rome.

Meir’s writing demonstrates a profound love of God and a strong belief that God would not abandon his people. The poems are also inspired by a deeply felt compassion for his fellow Jews and the need to instil hope as they verged on despair. ‘Ode to Light’ is one of the most powerful of these poems.

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£6

‘Await the Light’ A4 print (UK postage)

£10

A5 screenprint bundle

Purchase an A5 screenprint bundle. This will contain 4 prints.

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£20