Women’s Studies Group: 1558-1837 (London), 2014-2015 speaker sessions

Venue: Senate House, Malet Street, London University.

Information about the room will be available in the Senate House entrance lobby. Sessions will start promptly at 2 pm and finish at 5, so please try to come early, especially if you have equipment to set up, such as power point. We like to allow generous time for discussion, so please observe an upper time limit of 35 minutes for three-paper sessions and 25 minutes for 4-paper sessions. (Anything interesting you have left out tends to emerge in the subsequent debate!)

Saturday 29th November, 2014
Chair: Tanis Hinchcliffe Mihoko Suzuki, ‘Women Writers of the French Revolution and the “English Connection.”’
David Worrall, ‘Eighteenth Century Actresses and Case History Evidence from the Drury Lane Theatrical Fund.’
Philip Collinge, ‘Two cases studies of widows in traditionally male businesses drawing attention to their widely contrasting experiences: the ironfounder Margaret Outram and the coal mine owner Ellen Morewood.’

Organiser: Carolyn D. Williams on cdwilliamslyle@aol.com. See more information about this and other events on www.womensstudiesgroup.org.uk

YOU MAY ALSO BE INTERESTED IN THESE SESSIONS:
Saturday 27th September, 2014. Chair: Felicity Roberts
Nicola Lloyd, ‘“Wake Me from the Fairy Dream”: Sensation, Selfhood and the Female Gothic.’
Lucy Stopes-Roe, ‘The Infantilisation of the Feminine Ideal in Eighteenth Century Culture.’
Emma Whipday, ‘“Pins and Points”: Amateur Performance and Neighbourhood Discord in Early Modern England.’
Anne-Claire Michoux, ‘She suffered to see inserted, “Lady Townly by Miss Ellis” (The Wanderer): the perils of the stage for amateur actresses.’

Saturday 31st January, 2015. Chair: Lois Chaber.
Yvonne Noble, ‘Anne Finch and Print Culture 1691-1720.’
Moira Goff , ‘Who was the Incomparable Hester Santlow?’
Arlene Leis, ‘Sarah Sophia Banks as a collector.’