Chloe Wigston Smith
@chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social
Prof of eighteenth-century studies in York | material culture studies, women’s work and the Atlantic world | print culture & dress history | trying at social media
📚Novels, Needleworks & Empire https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300270785/novels-needleworks-a
📚Novels, Needleworks & Empire https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300270785/novels-needleworks-a
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TODAY! We’re very excited at CECS to hear from Dr Rachael King, our British Academy International Visiting Fellow this autumn.
📢 Our next seminar is just a week away, with Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social, presenting a paper titled ‘Digital Remediations of Manuscript Archives’
🗓️ Tuesday 11 November, 5pm
📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall
www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
🗓️ Tuesday 11 November, 5pm
📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall
www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
Digital Remediations of Manuscript Archives - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York
Rachael King, our British Academy International Fellow, addresses close and distant reading, and the computational analysis of manuscript archives.
www.york.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
TODAY! We’re very excited at CECS to hear from Dr Rachael King, our British Academy International Visiting Fellow this autumn.
For colleagues in the UK: Yale UP is running a 50% discount through November, using the promo code FIFTY. Lots of books at much better prices, including my own: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
Novels, Needleworks, and Empire - Yale University Press London
The first sustained study of the vibrant links between domestic craft and British colonialism Finalist, Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize In the e...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
For colleagues in the UK: Yale UP is running a 50% discount through November, using the promo code FIFTY. Lots of books at much better prices, including my own: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
It was a fantastic 3 days in Liverpool at the conference, ‘Terraqueous Globe: Land & Sea in the Age of Sterne’. Well done to the organizers and contributors! I gave a keynote on transatlantic material Marias, with unintended shopping consequences 👇🏻
what would a Sterne conference be without subplots and serendipity? After hearing @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social fascinating keynote about the author and transatlantic material culture, I stumbled across this 1779 Angelica Kauffman print of Maria… thank/blame the fates
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
It was a fantastic 3 days in Liverpool at the conference, ‘Terraqueous Globe: Land & Sea in the Age of Sterne’. Well done to the organizers and contributors! I gave a keynote on transatlantic material Marias, with unintended shopping consequences 👇🏻
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I'm talking about Anna Laetitia Barbauld again tomorrow! 🗣️🗣️🗣️York Georgian Society lecture: more details here: www.georgianyork.org.uk/events-1/ann...
Anna Laetita Barbauld, eighteenth-century polymath, two-hundred years on | My Site
www.georgianyork.org.uk
November 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I'm talking about Anna Laetitia Barbauld again tomorrow! 🗣️🗣️🗣️York Georgian Society lecture: more details here: www.georgianyork.org.uk/events-1/ann...
Very much looking forward to this CECS research seminar 📜
📢 Our next seminar is just a week away, with Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social, presenting a paper titled ‘Digital Remediations of Manuscript Archives’
🗓️ Tuesday 11 November, 5pm
📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall
www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
🗓️ Tuesday 11 November, 5pm
📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall
www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
Digital Remediations of Manuscript Archives - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York
Rachael King, our British Academy International Fellow, addresses close and distant reading, and the computational analysis of manuscript archives.
www.york.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Very much looking forward to this CECS research seminar 📜
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Looking forward to delivering the Annual Dr Williams's Lecture tomorrow at Senate House, London: Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Dissenting Hymns 🗣️🗣️🗣️
📢 Bookings are open for the 2025 Annual Dr Williams’s Lecture, delivered by our own Prof Mary Fairclough @maryfairclough.bsky.social at CECS & @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social
Book your place for this exciting event on 29 October at the School of Advanced Study, London:
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Book your place for this exciting event on 29 October at the School of Advanced Study, London:
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Annual Dr Williams’s Lecture 2025 | Anna Laetita Barbauld and Dissenting Hymns
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October 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Looking forward to delivering the Annual Dr Williams's Lecture tomorrow at Senate House, London: Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Dissenting Hymns 🗣️🗣️🗣️
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Always a dream to publish with @publicbooks.bsky.social. An amazing team with some of the greatest editorial engagement around.
My many thanks, too, to Marlene Daut for commissioning my essay on the extraordinary "I'll Be Back!" by Hope Strickland.
My many thanks, too, to Marlene Daut for commissioning my essay on the extraordinary "I'll Be Back!" by Hope Strickland.
New at PB: In a review of "I'll Be Back," Tita Chico (@titachico.bsky.social) explores how Hope Strickland’s camera formally renders the intimacies of Black global history.
“Radical Powers of Metamorphosis”: On Global Black Cinema - Public Books
As we follow the camera’s quiet, careful study, we observe—as Fred Moten reflects—that the slave ship also contains the means of its own undoing.
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October 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Always a dream to publish with @publicbooks.bsky.social. An amazing team with some of the greatest editorial engagement around.
My many thanks, too, to Marlene Daut for commissioning my essay on the extraordinary "I'll Be Back!" by Hope Strickland.
My many thanks, too, to Marlene Daut for commissioning my essay on the extraordinary "I'll Be Back!" by Hope Strickland.
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⭐️⭐️⭐️ Many congratulations to CECS MA student Elizabeth Riddick, who has won first prize in the JASNA essay contest, for her essay on ‘An Open and Shut Case(ment): The Form and Function of Windows in Jane Austen’s Novels’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️
MA student Elizabeth Riddick wins first prize in the JASNA essay contest
Congratulations Elizabeth!
www.york.ac.uk
October 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
⭐️⭐️⭐️ Many congratulations to CECS MA student Elizabeth Riddick, who has won first prize in the JASNA essay contest, for her essay on ‘An Open and Shut Case(ment): The Form and Function of Windows in Jane Austen’s Novels’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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📢 Bookings are open for the 2025 Annual Dr Williams’s Lecture, delivered by our own Prof Mary Fairclough @maryfairclough.bsky.social at CECS & @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social
Book your place for this exciting event on 29 October at the School of Advanced Study, London:
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Book your place for this exciting event on 29 October at the School of Advanced Study, London:
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Annual Dr Williams’s Lecture 2025 | Anna Laetita Barbauld and Dissenting Hymns
www.sas.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
📢 Bookings are open for the 2025 Annual Dr Williams’s Lecture, delivered by our own Prof Mary Fairclough @maryfairclough.bsky.social at CECS & @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social
Book your place for this exciting event on 29 October at the School of Advanced Study, London:
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Book your place for this exciting event on 29 October at the School of Advanced Study, London:
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
What a good Tuesday is in store!
📣 It’s research seminar day! Join us at 5pm to welcome Dr Rachael King (UC Santa Barbara) who will present a paper titled ‘Care Networks in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Archives’.
🗓️ Tuesday 14 October, 5.00pm
📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall
More info: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
🗓️ Tuesday 14 October, 5.00pm
📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall
More info: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
Care Networks in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Archives - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York
Rachael King, our British Academy International Fellow, discusses the ethics of care.
www.york.ac.uk
October 14, 2025 at 7:02 AM
What a good Tuesday is in store!
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Join us tomorrow for our first research seminar of the year! Our very own Prof Mary Fairclough will be presenting a paper titled ‘Mary Wollstonecraft: Apostrophe, Prayer and Voice’.
🗓️ Tuesday 7 October, 5pm
📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall
More info: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
🗓️ Tuesday 7 October, 5pm
📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall
More info: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
Mary Wollstonecraft: Apostrophe, Prayer and Voice - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York
Mary Fairclough develops a new approach to Mary Wollstonecraft's rhetoric of devotional feeling.
www.york.ac.uk
October 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Join us tomorrow for our first research seminar of the year! Our very own Prof Mary Fairclough will be presenting a paper titled ‘Mary Wollstonecraft: Apostrophe, Prayer and Voice’.
🗓️ Tuesday 7 October, 5pm
📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall
More info: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
🗓️ Tuesday 7 October, 5pm
📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall
More info: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
More #AustenandTurner love! Thank you Susannah!
Back into research after attending Attingham Trust's 'New Perspectives in Country Houses' course, and channelling Jane (photo from the amazing Austen/Turner exhibition at Harewood House, in collaboration with @cecs-york.bsky.social @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social )
September 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
More #AustenandTurner love! Thank you Susannah!
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Today was the last session of the Jane Austen Book Club at Harewood House. led by @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social and me to run alongside Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter exhibition. Today, we spent a lot of time talking (amongst other things) about silence. #AustenandTurner #Austen250
September 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Today was the last session of the Jane Austen Book Club at Harewood House. led by @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social and me to run alongside Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter exhibition. Today, we spent a lot of time talking (amongst other things) about silence. #AustenandTurner #Austen250
I’m a happy camper to have @zugenia.bsky.social ‘s new book A Funny Thing to look forward to reading!
August 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I’m a happy camper to have @zugenia.bsky.social ‘s new book A Funny Thing to look forward to reading!
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Thrilled that the story of Lela Harris’s stunning portrait of Miss Lambe from #Sanditon has made it to the BBC news. You can read more about her incredible work and how my research on the Lady’s Magazine, fashion plates and Austen intersect with it here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Harewood House reveals portrait of unique Jane Austen character
Sanditon's Miss Lambe is the only Austen character 'explicitly of African descent'.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Thrilled that the story of Lela Harris’s stunning portrait of Miss Lambe from #Sanditon has made it to the BBC news. You can read more about her incredible work and how my research on the Lady’s Magazine, fashion plates and Austen intersect with it here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It was such a joy this morning to see Lela Harris’s extraordinary portrait of Miss Lambe, Jane Austen’s only character explicitly of African heritage, from the last novel she worked on. She died at age 41 without being able to finish Miss Lambe’s story. 1/
July 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
It was such a joy this morning to see Lela Harris’s extraordinary portrait of Miss Lambe, Jane Austen’s only character explicitly of African heritage, from the last novel she worked on. She died at age 41 without being able to finish Miss Lambe’s story. 1/
Off to an exciting and fascinating start to a day on Women’s Worlds, on global spaces in 17th and 18th century Britain. Thank you to @susannah-lw.bsky.social & @laurenworking.bsky.social for bringing together so many interesting perspectives and research from universities, museums & heritage sites.
July 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Off to an exciting and fascinating start to a day on Women’s Worlds, on global spaces in 17th and 18th century Britain. Thank you to @susannah-lw.bsky.social & @laurenworking.bsky.social for bringing together so many interesting perspectives and research from universities, museums & heritage sites.
How exciting to be part of this impressive group of finalists for the 26th Susanne M. Glasscock book prize for my @yalepress.bsky.social This prize recognizes “outstanding, original interdisciplinary research in the humanities that appeals to both academic and wider audiences.”
July 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
How exciting to be part of this impressive group of finalists for the 26th Susanne M. Glasscock book prize for my @yalepress.bsky.social This prize recognizes “outstanding, original interdisciplinary research in the humanities that appeals to both academic and wider audiences.”
Thank you so much @titachico.bsky.social
for connecting with Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter in such a moving way: “our challenge, individually and collectively, is to imagine the possibilities of more equitable futures by looking at the past anew.” At Harewood House until 19 Oct.
for connecting with Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter in such a moving way: “our challenge, individually and collectively, is to imagine the possibilities of more equitable futures by looking at the past anew.” At Harewood House until 19 Oct.
#18thC #19thC #romanticism #janeausten #jmwturner #harewood
my review! "Austen & Turner: A Country House Encounter"
Bravo @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social
@chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social
w/ shoutouts to @claudewillan.bsky.social & @nathankhensley.bsky.social
www.bsecs.org.uk/criticks-rev...
my review! "Austen & Turner: A Country House Encounter"
Bravo @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social
@chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social
w/ shoutouts to @claudewillan.bsky.social & @nathankhensley.bsky.social
www.bsecs.org.uk/criticks-rev...
A Palimpsest of Country House Culture - Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter (Harewood House) - BSECS
These three players—Austen, Turner, Harewood—weave themselves in each gallery’s themes, bringing to our attention myriad resonances and surprises.
www.bsecs.org.uk
July 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Thank you so much @titachico.bsky.social
for connecting with Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter in such a moving way: “our challenge, individually and collectively, is to imagine the possibilities of more equitable futures by looking at the past anew.” At Harewood House until 19 Oct.
for connecting with Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter in such a moving way: “our challenge, individually and collectively, is to imagine the possibilities of more equitable futures by looking at the past anew.” At Harewood House until 19 Oct.
Very excited about these bursary awards for our CECS MA at York!
📢 We’re thrilled to announce that we have up to 4 student bursary awards for the MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York for 2025-26. Deadline to apply is 31 July. Please share widely! www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c... #18thcentury #18thC
Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies bursaries - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York
Thanks to funding from an external donor, we offer up to four bursaries towards fees for the MA in Eighteenth Century Studies.
www.york.ac.uk
June 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Very excited about these bursary awards for our CECS MA at York!
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"This incredible exhibition is sure to move everyone who really wishes to engage with the high art and experience the historical spirit of the Regency era." Just delighted to read this fabulous review of Austen and Turner at Harewood House, in The Conversation
theconversation.com/austen-and-t...
theconversation.com/austen-and-t...
Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter captures the spirit of two great geniuses, born 250 years ago
The exhibition unites the incredible works of two outstanding personalities of the Regency era.
theconversation.com
June 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"This incredible exhibition is sure to move everyone who really wishes to engage with the high art and experience the historical spirit of the Regency era." Just delighted to read this fabulous review of Austen and Turner at Harewood House, in The Conversation
theconversation.com/austen-and-t...
theconversation.com/austen-and-t...
I feel so fortunate to be in such excellent company on the shortlist for the Kenshur prize, awarded by the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University for the best book in eighteenth-century studies.
June 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I feel so fortunate to be in such excellent company on the shortlist for the Kenshur prize, awarded by the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University for the best book in eighteenth-century studies.
📝 Free writing workshops with the inspiring author and performer Dr Rommi Smith at Harewood House. These are part of the exhibition Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter. Book your place: harewood.org/events/write... #Austen #Turner #AustenandTurneer
Write, Inspired by Austen and Turner - Harewood House
Come and be inspired by Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter exhibition to write your own poems, short stories and lyrics in this creative writing workshop.
harewood.org
May 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
📝 Free writing workshops with the inspiring author and performer Dr Rommi Smith at Harewood House. These are part of the exhibition Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter. Book your place: harewood.org/events/write... #Austen #Turner #AustenandTurneer
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Registration is now open for our landmark conference ‘Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voicing Dissent’. We have a wonderful programme of international speakers including the editors of Barbauld’s Collected Works (OUP 2025).
📍 Online and in person at King’s Manor, 27-28 June.
More info: tinyurl.com/barbauld25
📍 Online and in person at King’s Manor, 27-28 June.
More info: tinyurl.com/barbauld25
Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voicing Dissent Conference - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York
Join us for a two-day conference celebrating Anna Letita Barbauld's work as the year 2025 marks the two-hundredth anniversary of her death.
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May 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Registration is now open for our landmark conference ‘Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voicing Dissent’. We have a wonderful programme of international speakers including the editors of Barbauld’s Collected Works (OUP 2025).
📍 Online and in person at King’s Manor, 27-28 June.
More info: tinyurl.com/barbauld25
📍 Online and in person at King’s Manor, 27-28 June.
More info: tinyurl.com/barbauld25
Reposted by Chloe Wigston Smith
Looking forward to being back at CECS York with this new work!
Our final research seminar of the semester is on 3 June at 4.30pm. Join us to welcome @kharveyhistory.bsky.social who will present a paper titled ‘Chat, Scribble and Scrawl: Women’s Letters in Britain, c1680-1820’.
📍 KG/07
More info 👉🏼 www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
📍 KG/07
More info 👉🏼 www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
Chat, Scribble and Scrawl: Women’s Letters in Britain, c1680-1820 - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York
Karen Harvey explores conversations about the body in women's letters.
www.york.ac.uk
May 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Looking forward to being back at CECS York with this new work!