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Women and Madness in the Early Romantic Novel: Injured Minds, Ruined Lives – Deborah Weiss

Lisa Berry-Waite / January 13, 2025

“We are an Injured Body”: Finding Inspiration in a Class on Jane Austen My new book, Women and Madness in the Early Romantic Novel: Injured Minds, Ruined Lives (Manchester University Press), originated in an undergraduate class I taught in spring…

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Image of Harriet Newell, in Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1855) 'domain Woman's Record, Or, Sketches of All Distinguished Women: From the Creation to A.D. 1854 : Arranged in Four Eras : with Selections from Female Writers of Every Age', Harper & Bros., p. 453. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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Navigating “Female” Identity: The Role of 19th-Century Missionary Wives – Katherine Hsu

Amy Swainston / December 9, 2024

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, American Protestant churches prohibited women from preaching or becoming ordained ministers. However, the religious revivalism of the Awakenings – a series of Protestant religious movements in the United States – created new,…

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CFP Women’s History Today Special Issue – Women and the Making of Art History

Catia Rodrigues / December 6, 2024

Women and the Making of Art History Since the publication of Linda Nochlin’s groundbreaking ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’ (1971), feminist art historians have led a revolutionary movement to review women’s and gender roles in art practices.…

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Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician – Alice Rothchild

Lisa Berry-Waite / November 25, 2024

My memoir, Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician, is both a chronicle of my life in the 1950s in a first-generation Jewish family, coming of age in the 1960s, and my embrace of feminism as I encountered…

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Health, Death and Trauma in Middling Sort Women’s Letters during the Eighteenth Century – Isabella Smith

Amy Swainston / November 18, 2024

Sources taken from Karen Harvey’s Social Bodes project which contains transcribed letters between c.1680-1820 categorised by state, emotion and body part.[1] Why do we study old letters? What is it about them? Or as historian Susan Whyman asks, ‘filled with…

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Black and white photograph of a young women wearing a hat and long dark coat.
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Hidden history and vital identity with a First World War servicewoman’s suitcase of memory – Robert MacKinnon and Denby Humphries

Lisa Berry-Waite / November 4, 2024

Scanning Auntie Emmie’s attic with torchlight, a time-worn leather suitcase caught Susan’s eye. Emmie would regularly retrieve the suitcase from the attic, but its contents were never shared. Opening it up carefully, Susan was presented with material traces of a…

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Taking the Page: Asserting Agency Through Letter Writing in 19th Century Britain

Beth / October 28, 2024

What’s in a letter? For a woman living in England in the nineteenth century with limited access to social freedoms and even paper—everything. Historians have given mixed reviews on the value of Jane Austen’s surviving personal letters. Some brush off…

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Black History Month Reading List

WHN / October 17, 2024
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries and Museums

Sarah Richardson / October 16, 2024

The 33rd annual conference, which will take place on 4-5 September, 2025 will explore and celebrate women in the archives, libraries and museums and the challenge of uncovering their presence. We encourage approaches that foreground marginalised voices and imaginative approaches.…

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