Recent Posts

Welcome to The Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837 website. Our blog includes information about upcoming events, call for papers, reviews and reflections. This pinned post will highlight our recent blog posts so it is easy to find information, such as event sign up. However, if you would like to find other previous posts from the blog, please use the search function or click on one of the categories found on the right-hand side of this page.

Recent blog posts

Announcement of 2025-26 seminar series

Events

WSG ‘Her Stories’ Reading Group: Upcoming session

Book reviews

Laboring Mothers. Reproducing Women and Work in the Eighteenth Century. By Ellen Malenas Ledoux. University of Virginia Press. Review by Jasmin Bieber

Elisabetta Sirani. By Adelina Modesti. London: Lund Humphries. Review by Anna Pratley

The Art of the Actress: Fashioning Identities. By Laura Engel. Review by Victoria Joule

They Run with Surprising Swiftness: The Women Athletes of Early Modern Britain. By Peter Radford. Review by Carolyn D. Williams

Women, Collecting, and Cultures beyond Europe. Arlene Leis. Review by Valeria Viola

Venanzio Rauzzini and the Birth of a New Style in English Singing: Scandalous Lessons. Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland. Review by Cheryll Duncan.

Actresses of the Restoration Period: Mrs Elizabeth Barry and Mrs Anne Bracegirdle. Susan Margaret Cooper. Review by Annette Rubery.