On “Editing Eliza Haywood’s The Female Spectator (1744–1746): Making (and Unmaking) a Periodical ‘for Women,’” chapter by Kathryn King in Editing Women’s Writing, 1670-1840
In this book chapter within an edited volume on editing 18th-century women’s writing, Kathryn King recounts her experience editing the highly acclaimed critical edition of...
Research into 18th-century Fellowships
I simply Googled “Frances Burney fellowship” and am excited to report on the McGill-ASECS Fellowship, sponsored by the Burney Society (North America), the Burney Society...
Let’s Get Digital
At the physical archive I visited, I scanned 35 pages of Montagu’s Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W----y M----e. I also located at...
Archival Feminist Research: Local and Abroad
Last Friday, I conducted on-site research into the following materials related to my primary area of scholarly interest, British women writers of the long eighteenth...
Selective Memory
By demonstrating the ways in which famous historical figures such as Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington used medieval histories as part of their techniques...