Women’s Studies Group: 1558-1837 (London) 2017-18 SPEAKER SESSIONS All meetings at the Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, WC1N 1AZ.
We will be allowed into the room at 12.30 pm., to give us time to sort out paperwork and technology, but sessions will run from 1.00-4.00 pm. So please arrive a little early if you can.
Saturday September 23, 2017
Charmian Mansell
Female servants in the early modern community: space, place and identity.
Christina Paine
Crises of Celebrity (on Angelica Catalani and her experience as a highly successful female immigrant singer in London, between 1806 and 1814).
Emma Clery
Jane Austen on Money.
Saturday November 25, 2017
Eva-Maria Lauenstein
‘Within these tombes enclos’d’: Delineating Renaissance Love in Mary Sidney Herbert’s Antonius.
Mihoko Suzuki
Political Writing Beyond Borders: Charlotte Stanley and Margaret Cavendish.
Valerie G. Derbyshire
Words and Pictures: Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) and the works of the artists of her day.
Sunday January 14, 2018
Maryann Feola
Aphra Behn and the Shaping of an Imagined Naples.
Karen Lipsedge
Reading Women and the Eighteenth-Century Home.
Sarah Burdett
From Bloodthirsty Amazon to ‘Desp’rate Mother’: Sarah Yates’s Re-invention of Queen Margaret of Anjou on the 1790s London Stage.
Sunday March 11, 2018
This is a ‘how-to’ session that also involves a measure of ‘work in progress’: the techniques under discussion are life writing, the use of legal documents, and audio research.
Valerie Schutte
Princess, Duchess, Queen: Mary Tudor as Represented in the Long Eighteenth Century.
Cheryll Duncan
Music, women and the law: the challenges and rewards of legal documents.
Catriona Cooper
Listening to the Commons: The Sounds of Debate and the Experience of Women in Parliament c.1800.
For further information, please contact Carolyn D. Williams on [log in to unmask] Find out more about the Women’s Studies Group on https://womensstudiesgroup.org
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