All Outputs (6)

Fairy Light (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Dearnley, E. Fairy Light. [Immersive theatre installation]. 21 May 2022 - 22 September 2023. (Unpublished)

'And then I said, "Those fairies we see - let's take a picture!"' In the summer of 1917, cousins Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright claimed to have seen fairies by Cottingley Beck. The photographs they took would later be described by Sir Arthur C... Read More about Fairy Light.

Fearsome Fairies: Haunting Tales of the Fae (2021)
Book
Dearnley, E. (Ed.). (2021). Fearsome Fairies: Haunting Tales of the Fae. British Library

There was an enormous fascination with fairies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries which popularised depictions of benevolent, butterfly-winged beings and glittering pantomime figures. But the fae have always had a more sinister side.... Read More about Fearsome Fairies: Haunting Tales of the Fae.

Into the London Fog: Eerie Tales from the Weird City (2020)
Book
Dearnley, E. (Ed.). (2020). Into the London Fog: Eerie Tales from the Weird City. London, UK: British Library

As the smoky dark sweeps across the capital, strange stories emerge from the night. A séance reveals a ghastly secret in the murk of Regent's Canal. From south of the Thames come chilling reports of a spring-heeled spectre, and in Stoke Newington rum... Read More about Into the London Fog: Eerie Tales from the Weird City.

The Sandman (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Dearnley, E. The Sandman. [Immersive theatre installation]. Exhibited at London, UK. 30 October 2019 - 8 February 2020. (Unpublished)

'Time for bed, children - the Sandman's coming...' Based on E. T. A. Hoffmann's eerie tale of the same name, The Sandman invites you to step into the memories of troubled young man Nathaniel, haunted since childhood by a sinister figure he calls '... Read More about The Sandman.

Big Teeth (2017)
Exhibition / Performance
Dearnley, E. Big Teeth. [Immersive theatre installation]. 30 September 2017 - 8 July 2018. (Unpublished)

Two people, perhaps complete strangers, go to bed together. But what happens next? Gripped by the Great Freeze of 1947, with wolf-whistling spivs and other predatory characters skulking round every corner, London could be a dangerous place for an... Read More about Big Teeth.

Translators and their Prologues in Medieval England (2016)
Book
Dearnley, E. (2016). Translators and their Prologues in Medieval England. Boydell & Brewer

An examination of French to English translation in medieval England, through the genre of the prologue. The prologue to Layamon's Brut recounts its author's extensive travels "wide yond thas leode" (far and wide across the land) to gather the Fren... Read More about Translators and their Prologues in Medieval England.