Chawton, May 2008
READERS, WRITERS, SALONNIÈRES:
FEMALE NETWORKS IN EUROPE, 1700-1900
An interdisciplinary two-day conference was held at Chawton House Library, Hampshire, on May 22-23, 2008. The event was jointly organised by the University of Southampton English Department, the University of Warwick French Department and the University of Wales Swansea German Section. The conference was the second in the series being held in the context of the NWO Project “New approaches to European Women’s Writing” which is based at the University of Utrecht.
This conference sought to examine the trans-national links between literary women in Europe in the period 1700-1900, considering that the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw an explosion of interest in Europe in foreign languages and literatures, and that recent research is beginning to explore the part played by women in cross-cultural interchange.
The day before the conference a NEWW meeting was held at Chawton.
Organising committee: Gillian Dow (Southampton), Katherine Astbury (Warwick) and Hilary Brown (Swansea).
Programme
Thursday 22 May 2008
9.00
Registration
9.50
Welcome
10.00
Keynote Lecture
Isabelle Bour (Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III):
What Maria Learnt: Maria Edgeworth and Continental Fiction
11.00
Break
11.30
Panel 1: Translation
Alicia Montoya (Groningen University):
Private Versus Public Virtue: Miss R. Roberts’s Writings, between British and French Models of Femininity
Máire F. Cross (Newcastle University):
Reading Trans-nationally: Flora Tristan as an Advocate of Other Women’s Writing – "What a revolting contrast there is in England between the extreme servitude of women and the intellectual superiority of women authors!"
Daphne Hoogenboezem (Groningen University):
Marvel, Feminism and Reason: The Adaptations of Marie-Cathérine d’Aulnoy’s Fairy Tales by Agatha
1.00
Lunch
2.00
Panel 2: Reading
Imke Heuer (University of York):
"Something in Mme de Genlis stile": Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire's Zillia, Playwriting and Female Aristocratic Authorship
Mark R. M. Towsey (Institute of Historical Research, London):
"A Woman of Capacity": Elizabeth Rose of Kilravock and her Reading of Women Writers
Katie Halsey (Institute of English Studies, London):
"Tell me of some booklings": Shared Reading in Female Literary Networks
3.30
Break
4.00
Panel 3: Literary Reception
Kerstin Wiedemann (CEGIL, University of Nancy):
Intertextuality as a Form of Networking: References to George Sand (1804-1876) in some Novels by Contemporary Women
Ursula Jung (University of Bochum):
The Literary Reception of Mme de Staël and George Sand in the Novels of 19th-Century Spanish Women Writers
Elisa Müller-Adams (University of Sheffield):
A German Jane Eyre? Amely Bölte and the English Governess Novel
5.45
Keynote Lecture
Helen Chambers (University of St Andrews):
Reading and Responding to English Women Writers: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Helene Druskowitz and Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
6.45
Reception
7.30
Dinner
Friday 23 May 2008
9.00
Panel 4: Salons
Marjanne E. Goozé (University of Georgia):
Mimicry and Influence: The “French” Connection and the Berlin Jewish Salon Around 1800
Mary Orr (University of Southampton):
Women in Tête-à-tête at the Cuvier Salon: Penning the Female Scientific Mind
Marianna D’Ezio (University of California Rome Study Center):
Literary and cultural intersections between British and Italian women writers and salonnières during the eighteenth century: an overview
10.30
Break
11.00
Panel 5: Building Networks
Eve-Marie Lampron (University of Montréal):
From Venice to Paris: Fame, Gender and National Identities in the Female Republic of Letters
Karin Baumgartner (University of Utah):
In Search of Literary Mothers across the Rhine: The Influence of Madame de Genlis and Madame de Staël on the Writing of Helmina von Chézy
Carol Tully (Bangor University):
Francisca de Larrea, Writer, Translator, Salonnière: The Complex World of a Traditional Feminist
12.30
Lunch
1.30
Keynote Lecture
Dena Goodman (University of Michigan):
Crossing the Ocean Without Leaving Home: Sociability, Epistolarity, and Frenchwomen's Transatlantic Contacts
2.45
Close of conference
Coach to London for curator’s tour of Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings exhibition at National Portrait Gallery.
For further information, please see Chawton House Lbrary and University of Southampton.
AsK, September 2010
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