Chawton, 11 March 2006

Translators, Interpreters, Mediators: Women Writers 1700-1900
A one-day conference at Chawton House Library, organised by the library, the University of Southampton’s English Department, and the project "The International Reception of Women's Writing"

Contributions:

Jenny Higgins, Darwin College, University of Cambridge

• French poetry and prose in fin-de-siecle England: how women translators broke new ground
  
  

Adeline Johns-Putra, University of Exeter

• Gendering Telemachus: Anna Seward and the Epic Rewriting of Fénélon’s Télémaque
  
  

Akemi Yoshida, Kitasato University, Japan

• The ‘George Sandism’ in George Egerton: Music and the Gipsy in Consuelo and Keynotes
  
  

Silvia Bordoni, University of Nottingham

• Romantic Women Poets and the Petrarchan Sonnet: re-writing a poetic tradition
  
  

Susan Dalton, Université de Montréal, Canada

• Giustina Renier Michiel and Shakespeare : Women and Aesthetics in Late Eighteenth Century Venice
  
  

Gillian Wright, University of Birmingham

• Mary Monck’s Translations in Marinda (1716): Liberty, Politics and Gender
  
  

Pierre Degott, Université de Metz, France

• Natalia McFarren : a nineteenth century mediator for the operatic cause
  
  

Hilary Brown, University of Wales, Swansea

• Luise Gottsched and the reception of French Enlightenment Literature in Germany
  
  

Christa Zeller Thomas, University of Ottawa

• Mapping Self, Translating Meaning: Anna Brownwell Jameson’s German Studies and Translation
  
  

Nagihan Haliloglu, Heidelberg University, Germany

• Translation as Cultural Negotiation : The Case of Fatma Aliye
  
  

Isabelle Mons, Franche-Comté University, France

• L’Europe Litteraire de Lou Andreas-Salomé
  
  

Ursula Stohler, University of Exeter

• The Russian Reception of Mme Deshoulières’ Meditative Idylls
  
  

Sam George, University of Sheffield

• Botany in an English Dress: Carl Linnaeus and women’s writing in Enlightenment England
  
  

Melanie Maria Just, Independent Scholar

• East Meets West in Elizabeth Hamilton’s Translations of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah
  
  

Emma White, University of Southampton

• Mediating Waterloo: Charlotte Anne Eaton’s The Battle of Waterloo
  
  

Sara James, Merton College, University of Oxford

• Translating the Prison Question: The French Interpreters of Elizabeth Fry
  
  

Mary Orr, University of Southampton

• Women and Daughters of Genius: Mrs Hofland and Clémentine Cuvier
  
  

Begona Lasa Alvarez, University of A Coruna

• From Britain to Spain: Amelia Opie’s The Father and Daughter
  
  

Katherine Astbury, University of Warwick

• Adaptation and mediation: Thérèse Huber and Isabelle de Charrière’s Lettres trouvées dans des portes-feuilles d’émigrés
  
  

Annie Cointre, Université de Metz

• Deux traductrices du théâtre anglais du XVIIIe siècle: Mme Riccoboni, la baronne de Vasse et Le Mariage clandestin de Garrick et Colman
  
  

Judith Martin, Missouri State University, USA

• Madame de Stael’s Delphine in Germany: Cultural Transfer in Karoline Paulus’s Wilhelm Dumont
  
  

Sévérine Genieys-Kirk, National University of Ireland, Maynooth

• Eliza Haywood’s translation and dialogic reading of Madeleine-Angelique de Gomez’s Journées Amusantes
  
  

Laura Kirkley, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge

• Giving Birth to Enlightenment: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Translations
  
  

Béatrijs Vanacker, University of Leuven, Belgium

• Jeannette, soeur de Marianne en traduction, ou The Virtuous Villager d’Eliza Haywood (1742)
  
  
  

A selection of the contributions has been published in: Gillian Dow (ed.), Translators, Interpreters, Mediators. Women Writers 1700-1999. Oxford etc.: Peter Lang, 2007, 268 p.

AsK, September 2010

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