Double review of: Maeve E. Kane, Shirts Powdered Red: Haudenosaunee Gender, Trade, and Exchange across Three Centuries (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 2023). Pp. 366; 12 b/w illus., 5 maps, 15 charts. $64.95 cloth. AND Mairin Odle, Under the Skin: Tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies in Early America (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, … Continue reading Double Review for 18th-Century Studies
My first chat (short!) about my new project, commencing next year: the secret life of an eighteenth-century spy mistress. I explain how and I why I became intrigued by her role in imperial world history in this segment of SBS Dutch Radio. [Love the note on the SBS page about my reference to the character … Continue reading Marguerite Wolters
As ever, enjoyed writing for Inside Story. Here is a review of a new book on the eighteenth-century intellectual women who called themselves bluestockings. 'In my usual manner, I began this book by reading the conclusion. There, Susannah Gibson closes her new book on eighteenth-century intellectual women, The Bluestockings, by quoting Virginia Woolf. “It is the masculine … Continue reading Bluestockings review
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