The Transnational Circulation of Women's Writing (1780-2014): Archives, Libraries, Translation
Workshop
London WC1E 7HU
Room 243 (Senate House)
June 26, 2015, 2:00 pm- 6:00 pm

Speakers: Gillian Dow (Chawton House Library/Southampton); Marina Cano López (St Andrews); Donna Moore (Glasgow Women's Library); Henriette Partzsch (Glasgow)

CCWW Workshop organized under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing & Travelling Texts, 1790-1914: The Transnational Reception of Women’s Writing at the Fringes of Europe (Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Spain) (http://travellingtexts.huygens.knaw.nl/) and sponsored by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area)

This cross-cultural half-day workshop sets out to discuss different ways of approaching the history of women’s writing during the long 19th century and to explore how these roots can shape and inform contemporary praxis. Our aim is to establish a productive dialogue between the past and the present of women’s participation in literary culture, bringing together the remits of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing and the historical focus of the HERA-funded collaborative research project Travelling Texts, 1790-1914. Special attention will be paid to the important role of libraries as institutions that conserve, shape and present our literary heritage for contemporary users, with contributions from Dr Gillian Dow, Chawton House Library (http://www.chawtonhouse.org/), and Donna Moore, Glasgow Women’s Library (http://womenslibrary.org.uk/).

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