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Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social · 2d

What a good Tuesday is in store!

Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · 2d

📣 It’s research seminar day! Join us at 5pm to welcome Dr Rachael King (UC Santa Barbara) who will present a paper titled ‘Care Networks in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Archives’.
🗓️ Tuesday 14 October, 5.00pm
📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall
More info: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

Care Networks in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Archives - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York

Rachael King, our British Academy International Fellow, discusses the ethics of care.

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Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · 9d

Join us tomorrow for our first research seminar of the year! Our very own Prof Mary Fairclough will be presenting a paper titled ‘Mary Wollstonecraft: Apostrophe, Prayer and Voice’.
🗓️ Tuesday 7 October, 5pm
📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall
More info: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

Mary Wollstonecraft: Apostrophe, Prayer and Voice - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York

Mary Fairclough develops a new approach to Mary Wollstonecraft's rhetoric of devotional feeling.

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Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social · 19d

More #AustenandTurner love! Thank you Susannah!

Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · 19d

Back into research after attending Attingham Trust's 'New Perspectives in Country Houses' course, and channelling Jane (photo from the amazing Austen/Turner exhibition at Harewood House, in collaboration with @cecs-york.bsky.social @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social )

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · Sep 10

Today was the last session of the Jane Austen Book Club at Harewood House. led by @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social and me to run alongside Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter exhibition. Today, we spent a lot of time talking (amongst other things) about silence. #AustenandTurner #Austen250

A glass case in front of a fireplace. The case contains three volumes of the first edition of Mansfield Park. Above the case, hangs a banner with a quotation from Mansfield Park in which Fanny Price is recalled to have asked a question about the slave trade that is met with a dead silence.

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Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social · Aug 14

I’m a happy camper to have @zugenia.bsky.social ‘s new book A Funny Thing to look forward to reading!

Photo of book A Funny Thing in front of the historic buildings of King’s Manor in York.

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · Aug 2

Thrilled that the story of Lela Harris’s stunning portrait of Miss Lambe from #Sanditon has made it to the BBC news. You can read more about her incredible work and how my research on the Lady’s Magazine, fashion plates and Austen intersect with it here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Harewood House reveals portrait of unique Jane Austen character

Sanditon's Miss Lambe is the only Austen character 'explicitly of African descent'.

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Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social · Jul 31

/2 Lela Harris’s portrait is part of the exhibition Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter and like Austen’s novel, is unfinished. Harris pieces together found writing paper from Harewood, seaming the edges together into a whole. Miss Lambe is a reader and a powerful viewer.

Detail of Miss Lambe face, showing the edges of the paper squares.

Detail of Miss Lambe’s hand and the edges of the found paper

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Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social · Jul 31

It was such a joy this morning to see Lela Harris’s extraordinary portrait of Miss Lambe, Jane Austen’s only character explicitly of African heritage, from the last novel she worked on. She died at age 41 without being able to finish Miss Lambe’s story. 1/

Lela Harris’s portrait of Miss Lambe, charcoal on found writing paper. Miss Lambe is seated, holding a book and looking up and out at us.

Artist Lela Harris standing next to her portrait of Miss Lambe.

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Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social · Jul 30

Thank you!!

Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social · Jul 25

Off to an exciting and fascinating start to a day on Women’s Worlds, on global spaces in 17th and 18th century Britain. Thank you to @susannah-lw.bsky.social & @laurenworking.bsky.social for bringing together so many interesting perspectives and research from universities, museums & heritage sites.

Cover page of programme for the Women’s Worlds symposium.

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Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social · Jul 24

Thank you 💕

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Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social · Jul 23

And I couldn’t imagine being in better company than with these 5 brilliant finalists: liberalarts.tamu.edu/glasscock/fi...

Finalists for 26th Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize – Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research

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Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social · Jul 23

And…”Chloe Wigston Smith offers an innovative and interdisciplinary perspective on how Atlantic expansionism and empire permeated the everyday and intimate lives of women and children.”

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Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social · Jul 23

I’m so grateful for the committee’s generous words: “Novels, Needleworks, and Empire is an original and beautifully crafted study that weaves literary analysis with material culture to show how eighteenth-century global forces shaped women’s domestic lives in the Atlantic world…”

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Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social · Jul 23

It feels very meaningful that the selection committees are made up of “Texas A&M faculty members, graduate students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences, and teachers from the local Bryan and College Station public school districts.” And that the prize recognizes interdisciplinarity.

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Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social · Jul 23

How exciting to be part of this impressive group of finalists for the 26th Susanne M. Glasscock book prize for my @yalepress.bsky.social This prize recognizes “outstanding, original interdisciplinary research in the humanities that appeals to both academic and wider audiences.”

Poster image of 6 book covers of the finalists for the Glasscock prize. Text description of the books at this link: https://liberalarts.tamu.edu/glasscock/finalists-26th-bp/

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Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social · Jul 3

Thank you so much @titachico.bsky.social
for connecting with Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter in such a moving way: “our challenge, individually and collectively, is to imagine the possibilities of more equitable futures by looking at the past anew.” At Harewood House until 19 Oct.

Tita Chico @titachico.bsky.social · Jul 3

#18thC #19thC #romanticism #janeausten #jmwturner #harewood

my review! "Austen & Turner: A Country House Encounter"

Bravo @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social
@chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social

w/ shoutouts to @claudewillan.bsky.social & @nathankhensley.bsky.social
www.bsecs.org.uk/criticks-rev...

A Palimpsest of Country House Culture - Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter (Harewood House) - BSECS

These three players—Austen, Turner, Harewood—weave themselves in each gallery’s themes, bringing to our attention myriad resonances and surprises.

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Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social · Jun 17

Very excited about these bursary awards for our CECS MA at York!

Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · Jun 17

📢 We’re thrilled to announce that we have up to 4 student bursary awards for the MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York for 2025-26. Deadline to apply is 31 July. Please share widely! www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c... #18thcentury #18thC

Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies bursaries - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York

Thanks to funding from an external donor, we offer up to four bursaries towards fees for the MA in Eighteenth Century Studies.

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · Jun 12

"This incredible exhibition is sure to move everyone who really wishes to engage with the high art and experience the historical spirit of the Regency era." Just delighted to read this fabulous review of Austen and Turner at Harewood House, in The Conversation

theconversation.com/austen-and-t...

Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter captures the spirit of two great geniuses, born 250 years ago

The exhibition unites the incredible works of two outstanding personalities of the Regency era.

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Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social · Jun 5

Thank you to everyone who listened to me talk about this book or read parts of it (sometimes the whole of it!) over many years. It was a long time in the making.

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Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social · Jun 5

I feel so fortunate to be in such excellent company on the shortlist for the Kenshur prize, awarded by the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University for the best book in eighteenth-century studies.

A photo of the spines of 6 books shortlisted for the Kenshur prize, inc my book and those of Matthew Kadane, William Max Nelson, Spahn, Scott and Williams, and Wunsch.

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Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social · May 29

📝 Free writing workshops with the inspiring author and performer Dr Rommi Smith at Harewood House. These are part of the exhibition Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter. Book your place: harewood.org/events/write... #Austen #Turner #AustenandTurneer

Write, Inspired by Austen and Turner - Harewood House

Come and be inspired by Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter exhibition to write your own poems, short stories and lyrics in this creative writing workshop.

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Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · May 27

Registration is now open for our landmark conference ‘Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voicing Dissent’. We have a wonderful programme of international speakers including the editors of Barbauld’s Collected Works (OUP 2025).
📍 Online and in person at King’s Manor, 27-28 June.
More info: tinyurl.com/barbauld25

Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voicing Dissent Conference - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York

Join us for a two-day conference celebrating Anna Letita Barbauld's work as the year 2025 marks the two-hundredth anniversary of her death.

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Professor Karen Harvey @kharveyhistory.bsky.social · May 27

Looking forward to being back at CECS York with this new work!

Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · May 27

Our final research seminar of the semester is on 3 June at 4.30pm. Join us to welcome @kharveyhistory.bsky.social who will present a paper titled ‘Chat, Scribble and Scrawl: Women’s Letters in Britain, c1680-1820’.
📍 KG/07
More info 👉🏼 www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

Chat, Scribble and Scrawl: Women’s Letters in Britain, c1680-1820 - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York

Karen Harvey explores conversations about the body in women's letters.

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Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social · May 19

Was thrilled to read this glowing review of #AustenandTurner at #HarewoodHouse over the weekend, co-curated by me, Richard Johns, @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social & Marjorie Coughlan at York and Rebecca Burton at Harewood, with curatorial input from Jade Foster and Diane Howse.

Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · May 18

What a fantastic review of the #AustenandTurner exhibition at Harewood House, co-curated by CECS, from @www.stored-honey.com. Such a thoughtful response to the exhibition and a wonderful affirmation of the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration: www.stored-honey.com/p/austen-and...

Encountering Austen and Turner

Firehawks by Stephen King at Open Eye | Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter at Harewood House | Latest NW arts news

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