Women’s Studies Group 1558-1847 Speaker Sessions 2019-20 Back

Event Date(s): 21st Sep 2019 - 21st Mar 2020

Location: Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London, WC1N 1AZ

 

Published on: 4th Sep 2019

Women’s Studies Group: 1558-1837 (London) 2019-20 SPEAKER SESSIONS
All meetings on Saturdays 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 21, 2019
Charmian Kenner: Sarah Andrews: furthering the cause of Latin American independence in early 19th century London
Rebecca Simpson: Scandal and the Maternal Imagination in Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Confessions of Mary Toft
Alison Daniell: Of False Hair, Bolstered Hips and Witchcraft: The Regulation of Women’s Bodies and an Act of Parliament that Never Was
Chair: Gillian Williamson
Assistant Chair: Carolyn D. Williams
Saturday November 23, 2019
Masuda Qureshi: Celestial Revolutions: Hester Pulter and the circular skies.
Natasha Simonova: ‘Semiramis does not stand still’: Amabel Polwarth and Amateur Authorship
John Beddoes: Anna, Emmeline and Maria Edgeworth, Three Sisters of the Enlightenment: “I do not wish to be the cause of one of your tight laced faces.”
Francesca Saggini: Below and Beyond. On Re-reading Burney’s Biographies
Chair: Miriam al Jamil
Assistant Chair: Felicity Roberts
Saturday January 18, 2020
Charlotte Young: Women’s involvement in Canterbury sequestrations, 1643-1650.
Carol Stewart: Penelope Aubin’s The Noble Slaves and the Politics of Opposition
Anne Stott: Princess Charlotte of Wales: gender and the “reversionary interest”
Katherine Woodhouse: “Madam Smith says, what shou’d the Captain do with such a wife as me who can only sit with a book in her hand”
Anna Jamieson: Madness Exhibited: The Margaret Nicholson Scandal
Chair: Angela Escott
Assistant Chair: Miriam al Jamil
Saturday March 21, 2020
Lindy Moore: The Scottish Schoolmistress in the Eighteenth Century
Alexis Wolf: Women and Mentoring in the Late Eighteenth Century: Mary Wollstonecraft, Margaret King and Mary Shelley
Rachel Eckersley: Female benefactors to dissenting academies in England
Catriona Wilson: “Some attention to those female members”: Feminised monarchy in the first exhibition of Kensington Palace’s State Apartments, 1899
Chair: Carolyn D. Williams
Assistant Chair: Angela Escott
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For further information, please contact Carolyn D. Williams on cdwilliamslyle@aol.com
Find out more about the Women’s Studies Group on https://womensstudiesgroup.org