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The Centre for Gender Studies in Europe at the University of 
Sheffield invites you to attend an international conference:

            Gender, the Letter and Politics (1750-2000):
                      from the Local to Global.

   At Halifax Hall, University of Sheffield,  9-11 January, 2001.

Conference Programme

Tuesday 9 January

1.00-2.00 pm:  Arrival and Registration

2.00-3.30 pm: Plenary:  Transatlantic Activism
Jane Rendall (York): “Friends of Liberty and Virtue”: Women 
Radicals and Transatlantic Correspondence 1789-1848, and
Edith B. Gelles (Stanford): “Remember the Ladies”: Politics in the 
Letters of Abigail Adams.

3.30-4.00 pm:  Tea

4.00-6.00 pm: Parallel Sessions:
A: Gendered Philosophies and the Enlightenment:  David McCallam 
(Sheffield): Third Person Singular: The Liberation of the Marquise de 
Sade 1789-1790, Anne-Françoise Gilbert (Zürich): Deconstructing 
Gender: Henriette’s Correspondence with Rousseau, Ursula Roberts 
(Edinburgh): Parenthood and Gender Roles as seen in Diderot’s
“Correspondance”.
B: German Women on the French Revolution:  Folke-Christine 
Möller-Sahling (Ohio): Sophie Mereau and Therese Huber: The 
Political and Private in the Correspondence of Two German Women 
Writers during the French Revolution, Ursula Hudson-Wiedenmann
(Cambridge): “Ich weiß wohl, daß ich Ihnen lesenswerte Dinge 
schreibe“ / “I know that what I write to you is worth reading”: Rahel 
Varnhagen von Ense’s Letters – between the Private and the Public.

7.00 – 8.30 pm: Dinner

9.00 pm: Plenary:
Jim Allen (Southern Illinois): The Gendered Politics of 
Correspondence: The Curious Case of Celine Renooz, 1840-1928.

Wednesday 10 January

8.00-9.00 am: Breakfast

9.00-11.00 am: Parallel Sessions:
A: Epistolary Relations of  the Third Republic:  Siân Reynolds 
(Stirling): Culture, Correspondence and the Commune: Allemane’s 
Letters Home from New Caledonia, Liz Macknight (Melbourne): The 
Constancy of Letters: Baronne de Mackau’s Correspondence 1866-
1886, David Walker (Sheffield): Across the Divide: A 
Correspondence during the Dreyfus Affair.
B: The Querelles des Femmes and their Consequences: Gesa 
Dane (Göttingen): Declarations and Confessions: Dorothea Schlözer 
writes to Luise Michaelis in June 1785, Christiane Schönfeld 
(Lampeter): The Political Correspondence of Malwida von 
Meysenbug and Johanna Kinkel, Silvano de Lopez y Barrio (Umea): 
Man’s History, Woman’s Work!

11.00-11.30 am:  Coffee

11.30 am – 1.00pm: Plenary: European Activism
Máire Cross (Sheffield): Writing Letters to a Woman Activist: 
Political Militancy in Letters to Flora Tristan (France 1843-44) and 
Lesley Hall (Wellcome Library):  “In great haste”: the Personal and 
Political in the Letters of F.W. Stella Browne (1880-1955) Feminist 
Socialist Sex Radical.

1.00-2.00 pm: Lunch

2.00-4.00 pm: Plenary:
Letters of Socialism and Suffrage:  Krista Cowman (Leeds 
Metropolitan): Reading between the Lines: Letters to Eleanor 
Keeling Edwards (1890-1900), June Balshaw (Greenwich): “More 
than just a Sporting Couple”: the Letters of a Militant Marriage and 
Katherine Cockin (Hull): Ellen Terry and the Art of Letters: The Actor 
as Writer in the British Women’s Suffrage Movement.

4.00-4.30 pm: Tea

4.30-6.00 pm: Parallel Sessions:
A: Correspondence of War I:  Charlotte Simonin (Saint-Cloud): A 
Lorraine Witness of her Time: Politics and the War between France 
and Austria through the Letters of Madame de Graffigny (1737-
1758), and Jane E. Schultz (Indiana): Nursing the State: the Work of
Medical Letter-Writing in the American Civil War.
B: “Unknowns” enter the Public Domain I: Clare Brant (King’s 
College, London): The Tribunal of the Public: Eighteenth-Century 
Letters and the Politics of Vindication and Elaine Chalus (Bath 
Spa): Women’s Letters to the Duke of Newcastle (1754-62).

7.30 pm:  Conference Dinner.

Thursday 11 January

8.00-9.00 am: Breakfast

9.30-11.00 am: Parallel Sessions:
A: Correspondence of War II:  Caroline Bland (Sheffield): “If the 
Worst comes to the Worst”: Letters Home from War-time Berlin and 
Joanne Sayner (Cardiff): Constructing Identities and Remembering 
Fascism: The Published Letters of Elisabeth Langgässer.
B: “Unknowns” enter the Public Domain II: Jo Chimes (?): Listening 
to the Leonard Sisters: Politics and Agency in Female Emigration 
to Australia and Paul Husbands (Duke): The People and their 
President: “Unknown” Women write to the President of the United 
States.

11.00-11.30 am: Coffee

11.30 am – 1.00 pm: Plenary: (Gender, the Letter and Politics?)
Christa Hämmerle (Vienna): “Requests, Complaints and Demands: 
Austrian Women's letters to the Authorities (1868-1918) and 
Margaretta Jolly (Sussex): Corresponding in the Sex and Gender 
Revolution.

1.00-2.00 pm: Lunch

Departure.


Registration Form
(to be completed and returned by 30 November 2000: see box below 
for address details)

International Conference: “Gender, Letter and Politics”
9-11 January 2001
Centre for Gender Studies in Europe, University of Sheffield
venue: Halifax Hall, Endcliffe Vale Road, Sheffield, S10 3ER

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Full Conference Package (including £20.00 registration fee, two 
nights' accommodation, conference dinner and all meals)

please circle choices…….

  with en-suite accommodation for two nights
£150.00
  with standard accommodation for two nights
£124.00

Conference Package without accommodation
(but including £20.00 registration fee, conference dinner and all 
meals)          £80.00

Postgraduate/Unwaged rate (including accommodation, conference 
dinner and all meals)
  standard accommodation only available                                        
           £96.00
Partial Fees:
    Bed and Breakfast for an extra night
en suite: £35.00 / standard: £22.00
    Day rate (Wed. or Thurs, including registration fee, lunch, coffee 
and tea)             £32.00

    Day rate postgraduate/unwaged                                                 
        £20.00

    Conference Dinner (if not already included above)                         
            £20.00

Cheque enclosed (drawn in pounds sterling at a bank in the UK):      
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               payable to The University of Sheffield
Special requirements (vegetarian, mobility, further accommodation): 
tick   and list overleaf.
please send to:  Mrs Lynda Laskey,  Department of French, 
University of Sheffield,  SHEFFIELD,  GB-S10 2TN
tel: +44  114  2224897   fax: +44  114  2751198   e-mail: 
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             DEADLINE for registration: 30 November 2000



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