Last month (January 2021) I gave a lecture at Darwin College, Cambridge as part of their annual lecture series. The theme this year is blood. My lecture was entitled, ‘Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England’. I hope you enjoy it, Sara.
Read moreI was asked at a recent talk if I had any favorites amongst the early modern women I research and write about, and Brilliana Conway, later Lady Harley (c 1600-1643) sprang to mind. We included a selection from her commonplace book written in 1622 and from her personal letters in our anthology Flesh and Spirit […]
Read moreI’ve shared some of the things I do, but thought I ought to talk about the academic side of my career, so I’ve added a category on my research. My PhD was awarded in July 2010, and became a book in Autumn 2013 for Palgrave Macmillan – you can read the Introduction for free by […]
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