Keynote Speaker: Professor Jacqueline Pearson
"Dreadful News from Wapping (and elsewhere):
Gender and Reading
in Early Modern Women's Contacts with the Supernatural"
Jacqueline Pearson's paper will discuss gender and reading. She has published on Aemilia Lanyer, Aphra Behn, Frances Burney, Jane Barker, Margaret Cavendish and Maria Edgeworth. She is presently working on gender and reading 1550-1750. For further information please visit Jacqueline Pearson's home page.
Followed by informal discussion on women and books ~ Of interest to scholars and students across the disciplines
Saturday 25 March 2006, 11.00am - 5.00pm
University of London, Stewart House, Room 273, Malet Street, London
Cost (including lunch) £8.50 (waged), £6.50 (unwaged)
For registration contact Teresa Barnard