Julie Peakman
@juliepeakman.bsky.social
Author and Historian of Sexuality, Women, Erotica, C18th Culture, Greece.
#Goethe. Famous as poet, playwright, novelist, scientist. Wrote #Faust and #SorrowsofYoungWerther. Pioneer of Sturm und Drang literary movement, which emphasized strong emotions and individualism. He influenced Michal von Borch. See my new edition for more. #history #travelwriting
December 18, 2024 at 2:40 PM
#Goethe. Famous as poet, playwright, novelist, scientist. Wrote #Faust and #SorrowsofYoungWerther. Pioneer of Sturm und Drang literary movement, which emphasized strong emotions and individualism. He influenced Michal von Borch. See my new edition for more. #history #travelwriting
NEW BOOK: Travellers in Eighteenth-Century Europe. The Sexes Abroad
For everyone interested in long eighteenth-century and travel writing, we are holding a seminar/book launch at London's Foundling Museum on Saturday 18th January 2025 at 1pm, 40 Brunswick Square, London, WC1N 1AZ. All welcome.
For everyone interested in long eighteenth-century and travel writing, we are holding a seminar/book launch at London's Foundling Museum on Saturday 18th January 2025 at 1pm, 40 Brunswick Square, London, WC1N 1AZ. All welcome.
December 18, 2024 at 2:21 PM
NEW BOOK: Travellers in Eighteenth-Century Europe. The Sexes Abroad
For everyone interested in long eighteenth-century and travel writing, we are holding a seminar/book launch at London's Foundling Museum on Saturday 18th January 2025 at 1pm, 40 Brunswick Square, London, WC1N 1AZ. All welcome.
For everyone interested in long eighteenth-century and travel writing, we are holding a seminar/book launch at London's Foundling Museum on Saturday 18th January 2025 at 1pm, 40 Brunswick Square, London, WC1N 1AZ. All welcome.
Interested in #ravelwriting or #Eighteenth-Century #Europe? Do join us on Saturday 18 January, 2025 – FOUNDLING MUSEUM, LONDON at 1PM for special seminar Travellers in Eighteenth-Century Europe: The Sexes Abroad @wsguk.bsky.social
@femmediastudies.bsky.social @womenstudiesshu.bsky.social
@femmediastudies.bsky.social @womenstudiesshu.bsky.social
December 15, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Interested in #ravelwriting or #Eighteenth-Century #Europe? Do join us on Saturday 18 January, 2025 – FOUNDLING MUSEUM, LONDON at 1PM for special seminar Travellers in Eighteenth-Century Europe: The Sexes Abroad @wsguk.bsky.social
@femmediastudies.bsky.social @womenstudiesshu.bsky.social
@femmediastudies.bsky.social @womenstudiesshu.bsky.social
Ares taken from Medical Zodiac taken from MS Hunter 251, folio 47v, University of Glasgow....because it is pretty.
December 15, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Ares taken from Medical Zodiac taken from MS Hunter 251, folio 47v, University of Glasgow....because it is pretty.
Hercules, commanded by the Delphic Oracle Xenoclea, had to act as slave to Omphale for the period of a year.
December 15, 2024 at 1:01 PM
Hercules, commanded by the Delphic Oracle Xenoclea, had to act as slave to Omphale for the period of a year.
According to the pamphlet 'The Life and Character of Moll
King (1696–1747)', ‘Every Swain, even from the Star and Garter to the Coffee-House Boy, might be sure of finding a Nymph in waiting at Moll’s Fair Reception House.’
King (1696–1747)', ‘Every Swain, even from the Star and Garter to the Coffee-House Boy, might be sure of finding a Nymph in waiting at Moll’s Fair Reception House.’
December 15, 2024 at 12:54 PM
According to the pamphlet 'The Life and Character of Moll
King (1696–1747)', ‘Every Swain, even from the Star and Garter to the Coffee-House Boy, might be sure of finding a Nymph in waiting at Moll’s Fair Reception House.’
King (1696–1747)', ‘Every Swain, even from the Star and Garter to the Coffee-House Boy, might be sure of finding a Nymph in waiting at Moll’s Fair Reception House.’
December 15, 2024 at 12:50 PM
#JamesBoswell's unusual biography of Corsican Pascal Paoli featured in #newbooks on #eigthteenth-century #travellers #booksky
December 15, 2024 at 12:48 PM
#JamesBoswell's unusual biography of Corsican Pascal Paoli featured in #newbooks on #eigthteenth-century #travellers #booksky
December 15, 2024 at 11:11 AM
#LadyMaryWortleyMontagu meets Fatima,wife of the Kahya at Adrianopolis. Stipple, engraving after T. Stothard 1798. Wellcome Reference 27545i #Travellers in #Eighteenth-Century Europe. #travelwriting, #history, #newbooks
December 15, 2024 at 11:07 AM
#LadyMaryWortleyMontagu meets Fatima,wife of the Kahya at Adrianopolis. Stipple, engraving after T. Stothard 1798. Wellcome Reference 27545i #Travellers in #Eighteenth-Century Europe. #travelwriting, #history, #newbooks
The book has arrived! Thanks to fabulous Miriam Al Jamil, Valentina Aparicio, Jo Willett Sophie Dunn, Shirley Tung, Brianna Robertson-Kirkland, Teresa Rączka Jeziorska, Louise Duckling, MariaDongu MinaWang, Emily Paterson Morgan, EleanorReynolds #history #travel #travelwriting #eighteenthcentury
December 15, 2024 at 11:00 AM
The book has arrived! Thanks to fabulous Miriam Al Jamil, Valentina Aparicio, Jo Willett Sophie Dunn, Shirley Tung, Brianna Robertson-Kirkland, Teresa Rączka Jeziorska, Louise Duckling, MariaDongu MinaWang, Emily Paterson Morgan, EleanorReynolds #history #travel #travelwriting #eighteenthcentury