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Curator’s Forum: Julia King (Lambeth Palace Library) and Eleanor Jackson (British Library)

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

The lead curators on the exhibitions ‘Her Booke’: Early Modern Women and their Books (Lambeth Palace Library) and ‘Medieval Women: in their Own Words’ will come together for a Q&A session on the joys and challenges of curating exhibitions on women’s book and literary history in library settings. They will discuss processes such as selection, […]

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Julia King: Remember the Scrybeler: Syon Abbey’s Books at Lambeth Palace Library

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

Syon Abbey was England’s first and only Birgittine abbey, founded by Henry V in 1415. By the time of the Dissolution, it had become one of the richest monastic houses in England. The Abbey was a double house of men and women, but the women’s community was far larger and, during its existence, the Abbey […]

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Helen Smith (University of York): Voices in Ink: Early Modern Women and Print

Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, London

Professor Helen Smith’s book, Grossly Material Things, and edited collection, Renaissance Paratexts, have shaped debates about the presence of women as actors and agents in the literary marketplace, highlighting women’s involvement in the commissioning, printing, distribution and consumption of printed materials in the early modern period. She also comments on the gendered relations between writing, […]

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