Papers from the 2026 Frances Hardinge Conference

“Contents

Unraveller, The Lie Tree and the eco-Gothic- Keynote for the Frances Hardinge Symposium.

Alison Baker

Jacqui Collier with Frances Hardinge

Faith-and-not-Faith: Dwindling Deities in the Works of Frances Hardinge

Gili Bar-Hillel

Disrupting Victorian Pigeon Holes: The Dinosaurs of The Lie Tree

Will Tattersdill

Changing the world—individual and collective action in Frances Hardinge’s work

Virginia Preston

Hayfever and other culinary hazards in the short stories of Frances Hardinge

Shana Worthen

Reading A Skinful of Shadows as an English Civil War Nerd.

Farah Mendlesohn

Broken Pots and Shopping Sprees: Criticising your friends and beta-reading with empathy (lightly edited)

Frances Hardinge and Rhiannon Lassiter

Appendix A: Frances Hardinge's short fiction, compiled by Shana Worthen

Appendix B: Frances Hardinge’s Novels

Contributor Biographies

Notes”

Excerpt From

Frances Hardinge Conference 2026

Edited: Farah Mendlesohn

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