Gender, Women and Culture Seminar

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Open Workshop*: Women and Ego-Writing

This workshop will examine the complexities of women's diary writing from the eighteenth century.  The workshop will be conducted by Cindy Aalders, Kathryn Gleadle, and Eve Worth; they will be presenting some of their recent research on diaries and leading the discussion.

Cindy Aalders, (History DPhil, Oxford): Faith, Family, and Memory in the diaries of Jane Attwater, 1766-1834.

Kathryn Gleadle, (History, Oxford): Subversion and Subjectivity in the Victorian Juvenile Archive: The diaries of Eva Knatchbull-Hugessen.

Eve Worth, (History DPhil, Oxford): Mass Observation: The People's War and the Public Diary

*Part of the Oxford International Festival of Women

 

Women in the Humanities

Audience: Open to all