| Day/Date/Time | Event | Details |
| Saturday 4 October 2025 13:30 – 16:30 (BST) GMT+ 1 | In-person seminar Foundling Museum,40 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ | Julia Hamilton: Anna of Denmark and the origins of the Stuart sequence. Pilar Botías Dominguez: Cathartic privacy: war, exile and melancholia in Margaret Cavendish’s Sociable Letters. Gillian Williamson: Elizabeth Inchbald: a life in lodgings. |
| 28 October 2025 19:00 – 20:00 (GMT) | WSG Reading Group: Her Stories | Frances Brooks’ ‘History of Montague’ |
| Thursday 6 November 2025 19:00 – 20:30 (GMT) | Online seminar via Zoom | Valerie Schutte: Queen Mary I of England and portrait medals in print. Conor Byrne: Representations of the executions of British Queens in early modern images. Yihong Zhu: Women at night: readers, writers, pleasure-seekers, and night-walkers in eighteenth-century London. |
| Saturday 6 December 2025 13:00 for 13:30 – 16:30 (GMT) | In-person seminar Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ | Breeze Barrington: ‘Versifying Maid[s] of Honour’: Mary of Modena’s artistic legacy. Diane Clements: ‘A very anxious and affectionate mother’: dealing with personal indebtedness in Georgian England. Rhian Jones: ‘For what signifies an absent friend?’ Epistolary friendship between women and men in England, c. 1650-1750. |
| Thursday 15 January 2026 19:00 – 20:30 GMT | Online seminar via Zoom | Stephen Spiess: Trans Allegoresis: Margaret Cavendish’s ‘Assaulted and Pursued Chastity’. Gillian Beattie-Smith: Creating women’s literary identities: the Tour of Scotland. Vicki Joule: Travelling and performing the self: Delarivier Manley and the ‘Stage’ coach. Brianna Robertson-Kirkland: The other Mrs Corri: Camilla Corri’s musical legacy in Edinburgh. |
| Saturday 7 February 2026 13:00 for 13:30 – 16:30 (GMT) | In-person seminar Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ | Esther Villegas de la Torre: Seventeenth-century women scholars: an interdisciplinary, comparative approach. Nora Rodriguez Loro: The rhetoric of royal panegyrics: Medbourne’s dedication of St Cecily (1666) to Catherine of Braganza. Sarah Clarke: Catharine Pelzer’s years in Exeter in the 1840s: from child prodigy to adult musician. Clutching at straws. |
| Sunday 8 March 2026 | International Women’s Day | Details to be confirmed. WSG in collaboration with the Foundling Museum. |
| Thursday 12 March 2026 19:00 – 20:30 (GMT) | Online seminar via Zoom | Sarah Barthélemy: Spiritual retreats and women in early modern France. Helena Queirós: Mediated bodies, devotional scripts: intermedial practices in early modern convents. Laura Giuliano: Lady Anna Miller (1741-1781): a question of connoisseurship. Teresa Rączka-Jeziorska: A Polish museum in an English garden. Romantic collection of multinational items of Princess Izabella Czartorska née Flemming. |
| Thursday 19 March 2026 | Online seminar via Zoom | Elisabetta Marino: Mary Shelley and biography, between history and romance. Ramit Samaddar: Sophia Goldborne in colonial Calcutta: Phebe Gibbes’s Hartly House, Calcutta. Charlotte Vallis: The role of French Ambassadors at the courts of Elizabeth Petrovna and Catherine II. Lisa VandenBerghe and Isabelle Lémonon-Waxin: Victoria de Chastenay: a scholar, an archive, a digital edition. |
| Saturday 18 April 2026 (GMT) | Workshop | An opportunity to present and discuss your research interests. |
| Saturday 16 May 2026 | Summer Visit | Ham House visit. A NT property, former home of Catherine & Elizabeth Murray. |
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Women's Studies Group 1558 – 1837
Women's and gender studies in the early modern period and long eighteenth century
Women's Studies Group 1558 - 1837 