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Saturday 17 October 2026
In Person at the Foundling Museum, 1.30pm for 2pm start
Abigail M. Carr
‘This poor woman’: the importance of compassion and perception for Wet Nurses of the London Foundling Hospital
Amory S. Zhao
The Automated and the Autonomous: Frances Burney’s Scribulerations
Angela Escott
‘I swung and walked a great deal upon deck’; women at sea
Peter Radford
A rediscovered, but untitled, anonymous, and old (but undated) engraving of women playing cricket – the search for its ‘meaning’
Thursday 12 November
ZOOM 6.45pm for 7pm (GMT)
Sara Read
A Physician’s Wife? Revisiting the Biography of the German Princess Using Digital Genealogy
Valerie Schutte
A Comparison of the Coronation Rings of Queens Mary I and Elizabeth I
Ailsa Maxwell
Women’s Home(work): Creating Sweets and Sausages in Georgian Britain
Saturday 16 January 2027
In Person at the Foundling Museum. 1.45pm for 2pm (GMT)
Luisa Signorelli
Misogyny and Shakespeare’s Eighteenth-Century Women Critics
Dr Jean G-Owen
Poachers in Petticoats: ‘Unwomanly Practices in Rural Britain’
Teresa Jung-Sin Hsie.
The Afterlives of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Eliza Haywood, and the Long Eighteenth Century in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando
Thursday 11 February 2027
ZOOM. 6.45pm for 7pm (GMT)
Francesca Saggini
A pen to correct the imbalance. Metaphors and communicative asymmetries in Frances Burney’s ‘A Mastectomy Letter’
Tabitha Kenlon
A Disabling Education: Gender, Knowledge, and Disability in Fanny Burney’s Camilla
Flávia Varella
Familiar Conversations and Historical Learning in Elizabeth Penrose and Elizabeth Helme
Saturday 20 March 2027
In Person at the Foundling Museum. 1.45pm for 2pm (GMT)
Mary Nevin
At the Hearth of Taste, Propriety, and Decorum: Female Consumers and the Eighteenth-Century Chimneypiece
Laura Granda-Mateu
Ladies of Liverpool and their lost collections: natural history knowledge-making in the North West, c. 1768–1837
Eszter Kovácz
Anne Conway and Ancient Wisdom
Thursday 29 April 2027
ZOOM. 6.45pm for 7pm (BST or GMT+1)
Elisabetta Marino
Not Just ‘the Mother of…’: Frances Trollope and the Beginning of Her Literary Career
Laura Giuliano.
Writing Art Across Borders: British Women Travellers, Artistic Identity, and Cultural Comparison in Eighteenth-Century Italy
Adriana Marinelli (Parthenope University of Naples)
Reclaiming Parthenope: Women Travellers and the Neapolitan Myth of the Siren
Women's Studies Group 1558 - 1837 