Sunday Feature: Reader Meet Author

Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Corin Throsby explores the unexpected literary influences on Byron, Tennessee Williams and Virginia Woolf - their fan mail. This correspondence was indicative of a growing culture of intimacy between reader and author in the Romantic period. Although Byron struck an aristocratic pose of indifference towards his fans, he secretly kept all their letters. Rifling through the fan-mail of these writers, among others, Corin explores the personality-saturated media of the digital age