Session Details

Tuesday, 28 December

316. Early Modern Women in the Archives

7:15–8:30 p.m., Congress A, Loews

Program arranged by the Division on Methods of Literary Research

Presiding: Elizabeth H. Hageman, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham

1. “Sleuthing in the Archives: The Case of the Three Mary Sidneys,” Margaret P. Hannay, Siena Coll.

2. “Reading the Manuscript Versions of Elizabeth Cary’s History of Edward II,” Margaret Reeves, York Univ., Atkinson Coll.

3. “Writing about Women’s Agency: Fetishizing Gender in the Early Modern Archive,” Melissa M. Mowry, Saint John’s Univ., NY

Respondent: Margaret J. M. Ezell, Texas A&M Univ., College Station

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