Zoë Van Cauwenberg

Ok, this is a start at least! Starter pack for the long eighteenth century and Romantic period - reply if you want to be added!

go.bsky.app/JMDQj4n

Thanks for this! Would love to be added if possible/

results: Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Shelley, Phillis Wheatley, Aphra Behn, Mary Wollstonecraft, Eliot, Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte Smith, Frances Burney

I asked MA English Lit students (in Belgium) to list Austen's female contemporaries. It wasn't a very satisfactory outcome, which made me wonder about the knowledge about Romantic-era women's writing outside my field of expertise. Any ideas? Can you make it to 10?

The PhD community of Conflict & Development at my university wrote a collective statement in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Join us in breaking academia’s silence and please sign and share: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Just migrated here from old Twitter. Posting this conference information for people who haven't seen it. Abstract submission deadline is 1 November 🙂

Call for speakers! I’m organising an online series of talks, “Women, Property and Economics,” which will bring together early career and established academics, and heritage professionals, working on this topic across 18th and 19th century studies.

Hello new followers! Each year on the other place, I've celebrated October with a month-long celebration of women's ghost stories. This year that content is moving to Bluesky. Please spread the word and follow along to enjoy some old favorites and maybe discover some new ones, too! 🎃

A late eighteenth-century engraving of a woman in a ballgown who wears a gigantic wig with a sailing ship on top. "a ship sailing on a sea of thick, wavy hair. It was invented after the naval battle in which the frigate, La Belle Poule, was victorious. The ship itself, with its masts, rigging, and guns, was imitated in miniature on the pouf. This elaborate creation, a celebration of sorts, was an overnight success. It should be noted, however, that many such coifs were supported with wired scaffolding and were very heavy. Also, seldom washed and making sleep difficult, these powdered concoctions were commonly breeding grounds for all types of vermin."

For "just because it's Tuesday," let's read from the special issue Material Fictions:
"Neither Poets, Painters, nor Sculptors": Classical Mimesis and the Art of Female Hairdressing in Eighteenth-Century France
by Alicia Caticha
muse.jhu.edu/article/715157
#materialculture #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

Finally made it here!
I'm Zoë, PhD candidate in history at Ghent University and literature at KU Leuven, working on Scottish and Irish women's writing (1780-1830), examining their mediations of history 📚
#gothicists #romanticism #romanticstudies #womenswriting