Herstoria
is a glossy magazine containing features, biographies, women’s history walks,
debate, book and film reviews, listings and more. All articles are highly
readable and written by experts. Out February, May, August and November.
Posted 29 January 2010
COMING SOON:
A listing of recent publications by our members will be included on this site.
Amy Garnai's
Revolutionary Imaginings in the 1790s: Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson,
Elizabeth Inchbald, is now available from Palgrave. Here is the brief
description from the Palgrave website:
In recent years, eighteenth-century and Romantic-era women's writing has
received increasing critical attention. This book expands current scholarship
by providing in-depth readings of the works of three prominent writers of the
1790s. It includes discussions of previously neglected texts as well as more
familiar ones and explores in particular the way Charlotte Smith, Mary
Robinson and Elizabeth Inchbald engage with the prominent political issues of
the revolutionary decade: the French Revolution, the reform movement in
Britain, the place of women in society. By examining the work of these writers
in the different genres of poetry, novels, drama and political tracts, this
book contributes to our understanding of an important historical period and a
scene of cultural production within it.
Posted
31st October 2009
In October 2009, Yale will be
publishing a new book by Amanda Vickery - ‘Behind Closed Doors'.
Yale University Press Description:
In this brilliant new work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian
England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her
customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of
life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her stately Oxfordshire mansion; bachelor
clerk and future novelist Anthony Trollope in his dreary London lodgings;
genteel spinsters keeping up appearances in two rooms with yellow wallpaper;
and, servants with only a locking box to call their own.
Vickery makes ingenious use of upholsterer's ledgers, burglary trials, and
other unusual sources to reveal the roles of house and home in economic
survival, social success, and political representation during the long 18th
century. Through the spread of formal visiting, the proliferation of
affordable ornamental furnishings, the commercial celebration of feminine
artistry at home, and the currency of the language of taste, even modest homes
turned into arenas of social campaign and exhibition.
Posted
31st October 2009
The
Maria
Graham
Website - A New Online Resource
A new online resource
for scholars of travel writing, women's writing, and Romantic-era and Victorian
literature is now available at
http://www.ntu.ac.uk/hum/centres/english/the_maria_graham_project.html.
Although largely neglected
today, Maria Graham (1785-1842) was one of the leading female travel writers of
the early 19th century. In the 1810s and 1820s she published accounts of her
travels to
India,
Italy,
Chile,
and
Brazil,
and was entrusted by the publisher John Murray with the editing of the published
account of George Anson Byron’s voyage to the
Sandwich Islands.
Her literary and cultural accomplishments, however, were not limited to the
sphere of travel writing. She wrote works of popular history and children’s
literature; she made important contributions to contemporary scientific debate,
notably in the fields of geology and botany; and she produced innovative works
in the fields of art history and art theory. She was also a highly talented
illustrator of her own work.
The website is one of
the outcomes of the Maria Graham Project, undertaken by Dr Carl Thompson
(Project Leader) and Dr Betty Hagglund (Research Fellow), under the auspices of
the Centre for Travel Writing Studies at NTU. It aims to make a number of
hard-to-find materials more easily available to the scholarly community, and
also to gather in one place a range of Maria Graham-related resources. The
version of the site currently accessible, it should be noted, is not yet
complete; further materials will be added to the website in due course.
If you have any queries
relating to Graham, please feel free to contact either Carl Thompson (carl.thompson@ntu.ac.uk)
or Betty Hagglund (betty.hagglund@ntu.ac.uk).
Posted
31st October 2009.
The Orlando Project's electronic text
Orlando, British Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the
Present is now available by subscription to institutions and
individuals. For more information about this fascinating project we
recommend you visit the
Cambridge Orlando Online website. Isobel
Grundy, a long standing member of the Women's Studies Group, has been a
Co-investigator on the Orlando Project. She is also the author of volume one of the Orlando
history, the early period to about 1830 (forthcoming).
Posted 18th
August 2006