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Women's Studies Group 1558-1837
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Multi-disciplinary international group promoting the study of women and gender in the early modern period and long eighteenth century.
https://womensstudiesgroup.org/
Seminars | Workshops | Outings | Bursary Scheme | Mentoring | Newsletter | Reading Group
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Did you know that the WSG has its own reading group? Members will be meeting next week (5 June) to discuss Eliza Haywood's 'The History of Betsy Thoughtless'. We meet four times a year and books are selected by the attendees. Interested in joining us for informal and fun book chat? DM for details.
Cover of the Broadview Press edition of The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, edited by Christine Blouch. The black and white cover shows two ladies (circa early twentieth century) dressed in white, seated next to each other, and looking into the distance.
May 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Tune into the Puebla de Nuestros Amores podcast tomorrow to hear WSG member Claudia Marín Berttolini discussing ‘Los Conventos Femeninos en la Puebla de los Ángeles’. Available at: www.youtube.com/@PUEBLADENUE...
Poster advertising Claudia Marín Berttolini's appearance on the Puebla de Nuestros Amores podcast (Episode 11) discussing ‘Los Conventos Femeninos en la Puebla de los Ángeles’. Appearing on 26 April 2025 on Spotify and YouTube. Features a photo of a smiling Claudia in a convent courtyard, with a decorative fountain behind her.
April 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Our annual workshop is open for registration. This year's theme is "Meeting and Greeting in (im)Polite Society".
Keynote: Professor Penelope Corfield.
18 May 2205
Venue: @foundlingmuseum.bsky.social

Full details on our website: womensstudiesgroup.org/annual-works...
All welcome, please share!
April 6, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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*Conference Alert*
Aphra Behn International Conference taking place in Palma next week, co-organised by WSG member Francesca Saggini.
Congratulations to everyone involved for securing such an impressive list of speakers (see attached poster for full programme).
www.teatrodue.org/aphra-behn-t...
Full programme details for the Aphra Behn International Conference, Fondazione Teatro Due / Università di Parma, 20-21 March. Speakers include: Janet Todd, Diego Saglia, Ros Ballaster, Francesca Saggini, Liliana Rampelo, Elaine Hobby, Maria Chiara Barbieri, Masolino D'Ammico and Luca Scarlini
March 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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We're excited to announce a special online seminar featuring Distinguished Professor Emerita Merry Wiesner-Hanks, discussing her new book Women and the Reformations.
13 February 2025 via Zoom, 7pm GMT (1 hour). #womenshistory #skystorians /1
Book cover - Women and the Reformations: A Global History by Merry Wiesner-Hanks. Set in a brightly covered geometric frame resembling a stained glass window, in orange, red, and blue.
February 3, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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In one week's time, on 18 January, we'll be meeting at
@foundlingmuseum.bsky.social
for a special seminar. All welcome! @juliepeakman.bsky.social
will introduce a new edited collection "Travellers in Eighteenth-Century Europe: The Sexes Abroad". Please join us to celebrate this new volume. /1
Cover image of essay collection edited by Julie Peakman, entitled 'Travellers in Eighteenth Century Europe: The Sexes Abroad'. The title appears in a large serif front at the top of the page, in a decorative frame set against a blue sky. Below, there is a group of travellers in eighteenth-century dress. On the right, a woman in a blue and yellow dress sits upon a horse, facing the viewer. She is greeting another rider, who is wearing a striking red jacket. The second rider has their back to us. The two riders are framed by their servants, who appear on the right and left of the composition.
January 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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It's time for the next instalment from our digest of members' publications.

The Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts,
edited by WSG member Hannah Moss with Joe Bray. Edinburgh University Press

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Cover image of 'The Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts' edited by Joe Bray and Hannah Moss. Set against a pale cream background, the central image is a delicate pastel-coloured image of two young ladies. One is seated at a piano and is playing from sheet music; her companion stands next to her, looking on.
November 29, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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Our bursary scheme is open for applications! £750 available to early career researchers, independent scholars, or PhD students working on women's studies in our period (1558-1837). Deadline: 15 Dec 2024. Please spread the word! #funding #ECR #PhD
Details at: womensstudiesgroup.org/bursary/
Portraits in the Characters of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo by Richard Samuel, courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London. The NPG describe the painting as follows: "Britain's artistic and intellectual women were triumphantly celebrated by Richard Samuel in this unusual group portrait exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1779. It depicts nine contemporary creative women dressed in classical-style robes in 'the Characters of the Muses'."
November 20, 2024 at 6:34 PM
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Hello, we're new here 👋
We're looking forward to meeting friends, old and new.
Please say hello in the comments so we can follow you!
A colourised version of the engraving 'A lady telling a gripping story to young women and children' by John Opie. Credit: Wellcome Collection. The image shows a group of five women, huddled together and deep in concentration. A woman on the right is the focus of attention: she has raised her arm to command attention as she tells the gripping story.
November 18, 2024 at 11:20 PM