Women and Gender in Early Modern Britain and Ireland: A Conference in Honour of Anne Laurence

Programme*

4 June 2016

10.30- 11.00: Registration

11.00 – 12. 30: Panel 1, Women and Business
Chair: Dr Neil Younger (The Open University)

• Dr Judith Spicksley (York)
  ‘Working and lending: the financial and occupational activities of single women in rural Lincolnshire in the seventeenth century’

• Dr Amanda Capern (Hull)
  ‘Women, land and family in early modern England’

• Prof Jane Humphries (All Souls, Oxford)
  ‘Women enter the high wage economy? Hand spinners and the Industrial Revolution’

12:30 – 13.15: Lunch

13.15 – 14.45: Panel 2, Women in Ireland and Scotland
Chair: Dr Patrick Walsh (University College London)

• Prof. Mary O’Dowd (Queen’s University Belfast)
  ‘Irish women and marriage in late seventeenth century and early eighteenth century’

• Dr Frances Nolan (University College Dublin)
  “The Cat’s Paw”: Helen Arthur, the forfeiture trustees and the English parliament, 1700-1703′

• Dr Rosalind Jane Carr (University of East London)
  ‘The Duchess of Gordon and Lord Kames: female patronage in the Scottish Enlightenment’

14.45 – 15.15: Coffee

15.15 – 16.45: Panel 3, Women and Gender in England

• Prof. James Daybell (University of Plymouth)
  ‘Gender, politics and the early modern archive’

• Dr Amy Erickson (Cambridge University)
  ‘Fans and Fanny Burney’

• Dr Gemma Allen (The Open University)
  ‘The rise of the ambassadress: Englishwomen in early modern diplomatic culture’

16.45 – 17.00: Closing Comments

• Dr Janice Holmes (The Open University)

*Please note that this programme is provisional and subject to change

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