Pamela, being now in the custody of Mrs. Jenkes, seizes an occasion (as they are walking in the garden) to propose a
Correspondence with Mr. Williams in order to contrive an Escape, who agree to hide their letters between two tiles near the Sunflower, 1745 by Guillaume Philippe Benoist (1725 – about 1770), after Joseph Highmore (1692-1780)
Etching with stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper; B1994.4.329(f)
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of the Library Association
Lectures: 2.30pm – 4pm (free to Students & YGS Members; £8 for Non-Members)
Book Group: 4.15pm – 6pm (free for All; please see YGS website to register)
25 October 2025
Dr Lizzie Rogers
Lecture: Jane Austen and “a most beloved sister”
Book: Jane Austen: The Secret Radical by Helena Kelly
8 November 2025
Professor Mary Fairclough
Lecture: Anna Laetita Barbauld, eighteenth-century polymath, two-hundred years on
No Book Group meeting this month.
10 January 2026
Matthew Constantine
Lecture: ‘Beningbrough Hall: The Rise and Fall of the House of Earle’
Book: Fantomina by Eliza Haywood
14 February 2026
Dr Adam James Smith
Lecture: Winifred Gales & Radical Print Culture in Late Eighteenth-Century Sheffield
No Book Group meeting this month.
14 March 2026
Dr Serena Dyer
Lecture: “Be-Nelsoned all over”: Patriotic Fashion in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Book: Evelina by Frances Burney
11 April 2026
Elizabeth Jamieson
Lecture: “And who is to look after the horses, eh?”; exploring the duties, accommodation and wages of country house stable servants.
Book: Uproar by Alice Loxton