Women's Studies Group 1558 - 1837

*UPDATE 17 July: We have filled all the available slots and the is closed. Thank you to everyone who shared or responded. We look forward to sharing the programme with you soon!*

We're delighted to announce our latest for our 2024/25 seminar series. We hold our seminars online and at Foundling Museum in London. Our meetings are informal, friendly, and well-suited to PGR and ECR speakers. Please share widely. Full details can be found on our website:

Seminars Call for papers from the Women’s Studies Group: 1558-1837 The Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837 is a small, informal, multidisciplinary group formed to promote women’s studies in the early modern pe…

Do you have a new book out? We are always keen to hear from authors on new books to review. E-mail our book reviews editor directly, with your suggestions of titles: [email protected]

Also check out our new review of "They Run with Surprising Swiftness: The Women Athletes of Early Modern Britain" By Peter Radford. Review by Carolyn D. Williams.

They Run with Surprising Swiftness: The Women Athletes of Early Modern Britain. By Peter Radford. Review by Carolyn D. Williams They Run with Surprising Swiftness: The Women Athletes of Early Modern Britain. By Peter Radford. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press. 2023. Pp 296. £31.79 (paperback), ISBN 97…

Reminder: *Online Seminar Tonight*

We have another seminar taking place online today at 1845 GMT with three great papers:

- Clare Burgess: "Cohabitation, Prostitution and Procuring: S*x work as gendered labour in early modern Seville and Mexico City."
- Chelsea Phillips: "Work, Life, Disruption. Women in the Theatre, 1740-1800."
- Niamh Dolly Fitzpatrick: "Isabella Andreini & Margherita Costa: Dramatists. Creatures. Women."
You can read abstracts of the papers, and find out about membership to join here:

Seminars 2023 – 2024 Speaker sessions The group now has two kinds of meeting: In-person and Online via Zoom. In-person dates are: Saturday 7 October 2023; Saturday 2 December 2023 and Saturday 3 Febru…

*Annual Workshop, “Pen and Pin: Women’s Craft and Creativity” (6 April 2024, 10.30 – 16.30)*

We are very excited that our keynote speaker for our Annual Workshop, will be Jennie Batchelor, presenting “The Writer’s Craft: Needlework and Women’s Novel Making in the Eighteenth Century’”.

This will be a day of presentations, discussions, and chances to respond and expand on this interesting topic. For the schedule, full details, and tickets:

Annual workshop & Museum Event Link to Eventbrite for Registration to 2024 Workshop: The Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837 annual workshop typically takes place at The Foundling Museum, London. The one-day workshop include…

If you can make it to London tomorrow, our next in-person seminar at the Foundling Museum runs from 13:30 – 16:30 (doors open at 13:00).

Maria Grazia Dongu: Establishing herself as a songstress: Charlotte Turner Smith and her various editions of the Elegiac Sonnets.

Ivana Ledda: Relational self-writing in early Quaker women’s prophetic tracts (1655-1688).

Beth Watson: The Precarity of Selfhood and the Absurdity of Polite Heterosociability within Frances Burney’s Camilla.

Carmen Casaliggi: Rethinking Transnational Networks in Paris: the resonance of Sophie de Grouchy-Condorcet’s French salons

See the website for full abstracts:

Seminars 2023 – 2024 Speaker sessions The group now has two kinds of meeting: In-person and Online via Zoom. In-person dates are: Saturday 7 October 2023; Saturday 2 December 2023 and Saturday 3 Febru…