Saturday 23rd October 2004, Room 331:
Teresa Barnard, “ 'A Deep and Lasting Importance’: Anna Seward’s Juvenile Letters,” 2:00pm.
Victoria Joule, “ 'To the Greatest Part Whereof I Am a Witness’: Story Telling and Autobiography in Mary Davys’ The Fugitive (1705),” 3:00pm.
Saturday 27th November 2004, Room 265:
Betty Hagglund, “Travelling to Criticise: An Eighteenth-Century Woman’s Trip to The Highlands of Scotland,” 2:00pm.
ABSTRACT: The first published tour of Scotland to be written by a woman appeared in 1777. Written as a critique of Samuel Johnson's recent journey, A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland by an anonymous 'Lady' presented the author as a Sentimental Traveller, quixotically duelling with the famous Dr Johnson. My paper will explore this text, setting it within the wider context of women's eighteenth-century travel and travel writings.
Myra Cottingham, “’Mourn Rather For That Holy Spirit’: Wordsworth and Felicia Hemans,” 3:00pm.ABSTRACT: An outline of the personal and poetical relationships between Wordsworth and Felicia Hemans, with emphasis on Wordsworth's 'Extempore Effusion on James Hogg' and Hemans' 'To Wordsworth'.
Saturday 29th January 2005, Room 349:
Amanda Flather, “Gender and the Use and Organisation of Domestic Space for Eating and Sleeping in Early Modern England” 2:00pm.
ABSTRACT: This paper looks at the influence of gender on the organisation and use of space for eating and sleeping in houses belonging to the middling sort of people in early modern England. In doing so it explores how relationships of power within the household were expressed and enforced.
Alison Matthews-David, “Penelope's Web and Angelica Kauffman's Craft” 3:00pm.
Saturday March 19th 2005, Room 248:
WSG Annual Workshop: Women and Performance, 11:00am -5:00pm
Featuring Keynote Speaker Derek Hughes, "Rape on the Restoration Stage".
Saturday 21st May 2005, Room 349:
Daniel Grey, “Disquieting Reading: Historiography and the Case of 'Saartje Bartmann', aka the 'Hottentot Venus',” 2:00pm.
ABSTRACT: This paper considers some of the different ways in which British & American historians have discussed the treatment of Sara Bartmann, the so-called 'Hottentot Venus' in the early nineteenth century (c. 1809-1817). There is a general consensus that Bartmann was a major case study cited by bioscientists, but the way in which her story is told varies widely. Drawing on work by historians written between 1985 and 2000, I argue that feminist historians such as Londa Schiebinger have provided both a fuller and more respectful portrait of this delicate case than has mainstream historiography.
Moira Goff, “ 'Ladies' on the London Stage: Female Professional Dancers in the Early 1700s,” (with demonstration) 3:00pm.ABSTRACT: This paper looks at the lives and careers of female professional dancers in early 18th-century London. It explores the connections and contradictions between their on-stage portrayal of aristocratic manners and deportment, and their off-stage social status and aspirations. It will include demonstrations from dances of the time.