Events
Please note: events are organised by institution, rather than date.
University of Portsmouth Symposium
Historical Fictions and Fictions of History, 1680-1830
2nd July
The symposium will investigate the nature, origins, and development of historical fiction in the long eighteenth century. A large and diverse range of historical fiction was published in these years and this currently under-researched body of work raises important questions about national identity, Britain’s relationship with Europe and the colonial world, the nature of modernity, and the role of culture. Our aim is to promote a detailed examination of this form of writing, and more generally to examine links between ideas of the fictional and the historical in the period between 1680 and 1830.
University of Chichester
One-day Postgraduate Forum, 'Women, History and Sexuality'
1st April
| We are pleased to announce a one-day postgraduate forum on 'Women, History and Sexuality' to be held at the University of Chichester on April 1st (start time: 10.30 am, location: Bishop Otter Campus, H144). The conference is interdisciplinary and the theme is a 'light' one that speakers may approach as they wish, although the aim is to examine women's often troubled relationship with the discourses of history and and sexuality. Plenary speakers are: Dr Sue Morgan (Chichester), editor of The Feminist History Reader; and Dr Nina Power (Roehampton), author of One Dimensional Women (2009), speaking on issues in contemporary femininsm. Entry is free and all are welcome. |  |
Preliminary Schedule
10.30 Introduction: Dr Fiona Price, 'Romantic women writers and the fictions of history: some introductory remarks''; 10.40 - 11.10 Short plenary and questions: Dr Susan Morgan on history and women's sexuality; 11.15-12.30 panel 1 ;12.30 - 1.15 lunch; 1.30-2.45 panel 2; 2.45-3 tea break; 3-4.15 Plenary 2: Dr Nina Power on issues in contemporary feminism
University of Chichester SCERRG seminars series
Dr Mark Sandy (University of Durham): 'Wordsworth and Romantic Forms of Grief'
Wednesday, 25th November, 2009, at 5:15pm, University of Chichester, Bishop Otter Campus
With particular interests in Romantic literature, especially the Second-Generation Romantic poetry of Keats and Shelley, Dr Mark Sandy is currently researching a project on Romantic Forms of Grief: Memory, Mourning, and Romanticism.
Jane Rendall (formerly University of York): 'An Unknown Contribution to the War of Ideas: Margaret Cullen's Home'
Wednesday, 27th January, 5.15pm, University of Chichester, Bishop Otter Campus
Jane Rendall is currently interested in the ways in which the Enlightenment in Scotland and England affected the situation of middle-class women, and influenced women writers.
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Chawton House and University of Notre Dame London Lecture 26th March 2010
To Be Held At: University of Notre Dame’s London Centre 1 Suffolk Street, London SW1Y 4HG
'Anguish No Cessation Knows': Women and the British Elegy, 1660-1830
Professor Anne K. Mellor, University of California, Los Angeles
Do women grieve differently than men? And if so, in what ways? This talk explores the striking differences between elegies written by women between 1660 and 1830 and those by men. To date, our literary understandings of the structure and function of the poetic elegy have been based almost exclusively on the works of such male poets as Bion, Shakespeare, Milton, Percy Shelley and Yeats. Drawing on recent work in social psycholgy and therapeutic practice, Professor Mellor will discuss in detail the brilliant elegies of, most notably, Mary Chudleigh, Elizabeth Singer Rowe, Charlotte Smith and Amelia Opie, among many others, in order to define the particular nature and social roles of the female-authored elegy, as well as the way in which these elegies changed over time, to produce a distinctively "romantic" form of the female-authored elegy in the early nineteenth century.
This is the inaugural Chawton House Library London lecture, co- hosted by the
University of Notre Dame London Centre.
The lecture is free, however pre-registration is required.
Please email or call Chawton House Library with your details.
Fellows' Lectures
Chawton House Library hosts a series of thought-provoking and inspiring lectures organised by our Research Fellow, Dr Gillian Dow. Each one is related to the library collection and includes a small exhibition of related material, giving guests the chance to view some of our rare works. Lectures follow the same format (unless stated otherwise) with drinks at 6.30pm and the lecture starting at 7pm. See the Diary of Events www.chawton.org/news/for further information.
'Stumbling on Quotation': who does Eliza Haywood quote and why?
Professor Ros Ballaster, Mansfield College, University of Oxford. Thursday 19th November.
Romantic Women Writers and the fictions of history: Sarah Green, Jane West and Jane Porter. Dr Fiona Price, University of Chichester. Wednesday 9th December.
In this lecture,Dr Fiona Price,University of Chichester, aims to redress the balance by examining the contribution of women writers to the historical novel in the decade before Waverley.
University of Kent
‘Writing Women’s Literary History: Problems and Possibilities’
A workshop series co-organised by the University of Kent’s Centres for Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century, Medieval and Early Modern Studies and Gender, Sexuality and Writing.
Over the past three decades, the number of research centres, books, articles, databases and other electronic resources dedicated to the subject of women’s writing has increased exponentially, with the effect that female authors have moved from the periphery to the centre of literary studies. Although there are still a significant number of women writers who were popular, widely read and well regarded in their own lifetimes and yet whose work remains obscure today, the prevailing sense is that the age of recovery is coming to an end. But what comes next?
This workshop series focuses upon women’s writing between the Early Modern period and early nineteenth century and the narratives told about it from the seventeenth century to the present. It attempts to map new directions for studies of women’s writing in these periods by focusing upon key flashpoints in women’s literary history: questions of genre; race and nationhood; and periodization.
Attendance at the workshops is free and light refreshments are provided. However, numbers are strictly limited. To attend one or all of the workshops in the series, please email Jennie Batchelor: J.E.Batchelor@kent.ac.uk.
GENRE WORKSHOP: 6 November 2009 (09:30 – 16:00)
Speakers: Dr Jennie Batchelor (Kent); Dr Amy Culley (Lincoln); Dr Elaine McGirr (Royal Holloway); Dr Marion O’Connor (Kent); Dr Catherine Richardson (Kent) Dr Gillian Wright (Birmingham)
RACE/NATION WORKSHOP: 26 February 2010 (10:00 – 16:00)
Speakers: Professor Kate Chedzgoy (Newcastle); Dr Gillian Dow (Southampton); Dr Fiona Price (Chichester); Professor Cora Kaplan (Queen Mary)
PERIODISATION WORKSHOP: 18 June 2010 (10:00 – 16:00)
Speakers: Dr Helen Brooks (Kent); Professor Gregory Kucich (Notre Dame, London); Professor Donna Landry (Kent); Professor Sue Wiseman (Birkbeck)