Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies
Day Conference at the King's Manor
Saturday 10 March 2001
Bluestockings: Women, Writing and the Politics of Sociability
Speakers
Monica Bolufer
Kate Davies
Harriet Guest
Emma Major
Jane Rendall
PROGRAMME
9.30-10.00 Registration and coffee
10.00-10.45 Harriet Guest, 'Bluestocking feminism?'
10.45-11.00 Discussion
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.00 Kate Davies, 'Telling the same story: Catherine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren'
12.00-12.30 Emma Major, 'Femininity and national identity: Elizabeth Montagu's trip to France'
12.30-12.45 Discussion
12.45-2.00 Lunch
2.00-2.45 Monica Bolufer, 'Learned women in Eighteenth-century Spain, a tradition and its meanings'
2.45-3.00 Discussion
3.00-3.30 Coffee
3.30-4.15 Jane Rendall, '"Women that would plague me with rational conversation": aspiring women and Scottish Whigs, c. 1790-1830'
4.15-4.30 Discussion
4.30-5.15 Open discussion chaired by Joanna de Groot