The Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837 Annual Workshop, in association with Royal Holloway, University of London.

Keynote Speaker: Emma Major, University of York.

Emma Major’s research interests lie in debates about gender, nation, Christianity, and class. Since the publication of her book Madam Britannia: Women, Church, and Nation 1712-1812 (Oxford UP, 2011), she has written two chapters for edited collections: an essay on Catherine Talbot, and another on religion and national identity in 1688. She has ongoing interests in debates in the 1680s and 1690s, and in Charlotte Yonge and Margaret Oliphant. She is currently working on two monographs, one on Anna Laetitia Barbauld and concepts of the public, and the other on religion, rebellion, and nation in the 1840s.

Following the keynote, participants are asked to provide a contribution of no more than 5 minutes, from any discipline and period covered by the group, exploring the workshop themes.

These might include:
Women, publication and anonymity
Women and religion
Women, violence and revolution
Gender, the public, and the private
Gender and genre
Women and the Bible
Preaching Women
Women and Nation Dissent

For more information and registration details, please visit our website: www.womensstudiesgroup.org.uk