This section includes previous Women’s Studies Group 1558 – 1837 posts and articles in the following categories: Remembering past scholars; Reflections on the History of the WSG; Recognition of Previous Seminar Series; Annual Workshops; WSG Bursary Reports; WSG Events & Visits; Conference & Event Reports; WSG Member Articles; Exhibition and Publication Reviews. Please scroll down to access posts and articles and click on title to access the pdf.
This section is regularly updated and we would be particularly interested in hearing about your memories of previous WSG events, especially the early sessions. Please email Trudie Messent via the WSG committee if you have any material, stories, images, reviews or reports for inclusion in this archive.
Remembering past scholars:
Deirdre Le Faye Obituary by Dr Gillian Dow, University of Southampton
You may also be interested in Gillian’s contribution to the BBC Radio programme ‘Last Word’ on Deirdre Le Faye
BBC Last Word including Deirdre Le Faye
Deirdre Le Faye was very dedicated to Chawton House and donations made to them in her memory would be much appreciated.
Reflections on the History of WSG: How to start a Women’s Studies Group
Isobel Grundy: How to start a women’s studies group
WSG Founder Yvonne Noble: Who can start a women’s studies group?
Lois Chaber: “Confessions of a (non)English OAP Reader”—or How I and WSG Survived
Marie Mulvey Roberts in conversation with Janet Todd
Vicki Joule and Sarah Oliver: How to organise a WSG workshop
Marilyn L. Brooks:Home thoughts from abroad
Elaine Hobby in Conversation with Sara Read article
Audio of Elaine Hobby in Conversation with Sara Read
WSG Interviews:
Andrew McInnes interviewed by Felicity Roberts
Tabitha Kenlon interviewed by Felicity Roberts
Previous Seminar Series:
19 September 2020 Seminar Review by Miriam Al Jamil
20 February 2021 Seminar Review by Alison Daniell
Exploring the Lives of Women 2018 Book Launch
Annual Workshops:
2019 WSG Workshop ‘Women, land and its meanings’
2018 WSG Workshop ‘Music and the Culture of Domestic Craft in Georgian Britain‘
2017 WSG Workshop ‘The Fruitful Body’ Notice and Report
2016 WSG Workshop ‘Women and the Bible’
2015 WSG Workshop on Aphra Behn including Report
WSG Bursaries:
2016 – 2017 30th Anniversary Bursary award
WSG Events and Visits:
2019 National Portrait Gallery Lunchtime Lecture ‘Elizabeth I at 60’
2019 Summer Visit Gibson Library & Audley End House
2018 Visit to the National Portrait Gallery Heinz Archive and Library
2016 WSG Trip to Geffrye Museum: Helen Draper talk on Mary Beale and Report by Miriam Al Jamil
2015 WSG Trip to the Wellcome Centre Report
Conference & Event Reports:
Wollstonecraft Celebration 2019
Women Artists at the AAH conference 2018
Material Girls: Women Money and Markets (1750-1850) conference and WSG panel report 2017 and WSG panel abstracts
BSECS 2016 WSG Panel Report by Carolyn Williams
WSG Member Articles:
Susan Civale: Fellowship at Chawton House
Tabitha Kenlon on Teaching Hannah Cowley in Dubai
Jackie Mulhallen: performing Sylvia Pankhurst
WSG members online: Early Modern Medicine blog and the Orlando Project
Exhibition & Theatre Reviews:
Ladies of Quality & Distinction, Foundling Museum Exhibition 2018-2019
Love’s Victory, Penshurst Place
Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Exhibition 2018
Publication Reviews:
Women’s Writing, 1660-1830: Feminisms and Futures Edited by Jennie Batchelor and Gillian Dow
Materializing Gender in Eighteenth-Century Europe Edited by Jennifer Germann and Heidi Strobel, including a chapter by WSG member Felicity Roberts on Mary Delaney
Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700-1830. By Briony McDonagh
All Things Georgian: Tales from the Long Eighteenth-Century. By Joanne Major and Sarah Murden
The Collaborative Literary Relationship of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. By Anna Mercer.
The Future of Feminist Eighteenth-Century Scholarship: Beyond Recovery Edited by Robin Runia.
British Masculinity in the ‘Gentleman’s Magazine’, 1731 – 1815 By Gillian Williamson
Women's Studies Group 1558 - 1837 