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Thursday 18th August 2022

Clorinda and her circle were all considerably engaged with the pleasures of books. Some notes on how they would have accessed (and disseminated) books.

Thursday 18th August 2022

Many of Clorinda’s Circle, including Clorinda herself, had relatively little formal education, but various educational opportunities were available, inflected for class, religious affiliation, gender, etc

Wednesday 17th August 2022

Women’s situation in marriage in the early nineteenth century: property, legalities, separation, divorce. Why a lady with a comfortable independence might not wish to dwindle into a wife.

Wednesday 17th August 2022

Church and state were intimately connected at this period: many areas of life were under the control of the Established Church, even for those who were nonconformists or unbelievers.

Wednesday 17th August 2022

Maybe we can’t talk about LGBTQ people then in exactly the ways we would today: but there were people engaging in same-sex relationships and people with non-conforming gender identities, in spite of legal penalties and social hostility.

Wednesday 17th August 2022

The state of the administration of law in early nineteenth century London