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#AdaptingBooks

If you’re lucky enough to live in or near North Wales, we’ll be sharing some insights into our work and our creative process on 21 March at Gladstone’s Library in Hawarden, Flintshire.

If you’re unlucky enough *not* to live in or near North Wales, you can watch it online too.

🎟️ https://www.gladstoneslibrary.org/events/events-courses-list/the-rickard-sisters-the-likes-of-us-who-reads-old-ideas

#GladstonesLibrary #LlyfrgellGladstone #Comics #GraphicNovel #AdaptingBooks #TheRaggedTrouseredPhilanthropists @bookstodon

The incredible reading room at Gladstone’s Library. It’s a neo-gothic room c1880s, open to the rafters, with a wooden gallery around the sides held up by large carved wooden pillars. The walls are covered in books and there are tables and chairs in the centre. The whole place glows like honey because of the warmth of the wood, and there are large gothic windows at the far end letting in a bath of light.

The front cover of our graphic novel adaptation of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell. It’s green with a red decorative panel, on which the title is written in an Edwardian style. Below it, three of the characters on a tea break - Crass, on the left, is sitting on the floor cross-legged reading The Chronicles of Crime. In the centre, apprentice Bert, learning the decorating trade, passes a cup of tea to signwriter Frank Owen, who’s standing, palette in hand, admiring his paintwork, and probably thinking about how to take down capitalism.

The front cover of our graphic novel adaptation of No Surrender by Constance Maud. It’s dark blue, with a group of women carrying a large fabric banner with the title of the book in a decorative Edwardian style. The women are wearing sashes which say Votes for Women and are all wearing Edwardian dresses and hats, except for two who are wearing Lancashire shawls. From left to right we have Alice (blonde, in yellow and green), Mary (red hair, in dusky blue), Jenny (dark hair, in a red shawl and carrying a megaphone), Keziah (a Black woman in a blue shawl), and Mrs Wilmot (an older woman with grey hair, in lilac)

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