I also managed to smuggle in some hot gossip about seventeenth-century affairs and revenge porn. Something for everyone in this one, really.

I was just developing a reading list on women and utopia. I will upload when done!

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Attendance is free and welcome! Please email me (mary.j.macdonald@jyu.fi), or my co-organizer Elena Gordon (elena.k.gordon@jyu.fi), if you would like to attend. We will share location details for in-person attendance or a zoom link for online attendance.

Totally! I was just reading May Hay's entry on Behn in the Female Biography and wondering whether our impressions of Behn might be partly inherited from Hays.

Early modern women writers were (and are) treated as peripheral, but that does not mean they were ever forgotten. Claiming they were works to erase the work of women like Eva. B Dykes—the 3rd Black woman to receive a PhD in the USA—who we should be working to elevate alongside them.