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The Bluestocking Corpus: Letters by Elizabeth Montagu
This post for Women’s History Month 2020 explores the Bluestocking Corpus of Elizabeth Montagu’s letters, created by Anni Sairio. This first version of the Bluestocking Corpus consists of 243 manuscript letters, written by the ‘Queen of the Blues’ Elizabeth Montagu … Continue reading
Posted in Digital History, Early Modern, WHM, Women/Gender
Tagged data, dataviz, in her minds eye, letters, whm20, women's voices
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Women’s History Month 2017: Afterthoughts
To wrap up this month, this post is just a few notes – half-formed thoughts, not ‘conclusions’ – on some recurring themes that struck me as I was writing and researching posts (and shaped some of my choices as the … Continue reading
Women Petitioners: Belinda Sutton, an ex-slave in Massachusetts
In February 1783, Belinda Sutton petitioned the Massachusetts General Court for a pension from the estate of Isaac Royall Jr, her late master. (In this petition she names herself simply ‘Belinda, an Affrican’, but in later documents she gave the … Continue reading
Women Petitioners: London Servants
I’m going to round off WHM2017 with a couple of posts indulging my current interests in petitions. Today I have two petitions from the London Lives Petitions Project: both are from working women who petitioned London magistrates for help after … Continue reading
Posted in Crime/Law, Early Modern, London Lives Petitions, WHM, Women/Gender
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The Journey of Sarah Knight (1666-1727)
In October 1704, Sarah Knight left her home town of Boston, MA, for a five-month journey on horseback to New York, which she recorded in a travel diary which is memorable for its descriptions of the perils and people she … Continue reading
Mary Saxby (1738-1801), an 18th-century vagrant and memoirist
Mary Saxby’s Memoirs of a Female Vagrant was published posthumously, with the twin goals of raising some money for impoverished relatives and ‘prompting the active beneficence of the present age, to regard the wandering classes of the poor, with that attention … Continue reading
The will of Elen ferch Lewes (d. 1619)
Today’s offering, courtesy of the National Library of Wales’s rather amazing Welsh Wills Online project, is the 1619 will of Elen ferch Lewes of Meline, Pembrokeshire. Elen was not very wealthy (the total value of her probate inventory, included with … Continue reading
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The travails of Lady Ann Fanshawe (1625-1680)
Ann Harrison came from a Hertfordshire Royalist family whose lives were turned upside down by the Civil Wars. She married her husband Sir Richard Fanshawe in 1644, and large parts of their married life were spent in travels that she … Continue reading
