Welcome to our research project on pregnancy in Victorian fiction & culture, led by Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge, University of Victoria
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19 Jun 2023
Pregnancy & Childbirth on the Victorian Web: our virtual launch is tomorrow, June 20. Mini-presentations on Victorian breastfeeding, maternity dress, embryology, medical advice manuals, anatomical models, and miscarriage. Pls RSVP for a Zoom link as indicated below.
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16 Jun 2023
Delighted to launch our next series of essays on Victorian pregnancy: breastfeeding & wet nursing, maternity dress, medical advice, anatomical models, & miscarriage. All welcome; pls RSVP for zoom link as directed on poster. June 20, 10-11 PST. @vsawc @RS4VP @VISAWUS @navsa
ALT Image of two Victorian maternity dresses in profile, list of speakers: Jessica Cox , Diana Edelman, Alanna McKnight, Anna Niiranen, Corinna Wagner , Shannon Withycombe
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28 Oct 2021
Don't forget to RSVP to our first Roundtable of the season! We will be discussing paper-based media tomorrow with @CatrionaMacL @catjeangolden @PatrickLearyVIC Elena Chestnova & Danielle Skeehan! Register here: craftingcommunities.net/even…
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16 Oct 2021
We're delighted to launch the 2021-22 Crafting series with a fabulous roundtable on paper featuring @CatrionaMacL @catjeangolden @PatrickLearyVIC Elena Chestnova & Danielle Skeehan! Register here: craftingcommunities.net/even…
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11 Oct 2021
What do an obstetric manikin, a policeman’s hat, Charlotte Bronte’s dress, scrapbooks, and a pincushion have in common? All of these Victorian Things can now be found at the Crafting Communities Virtual Exhibition. omekas.library.uvic.ca/s/cra…
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2 Oct 2021
Thank you to conference organizers, panel chair @CLennPhillips & co-panelist Kate Naylor for a wonderful and engaging #PoP2021!
perceptionsofpregnancy.com/p…
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We are so excited to read @CLennPhillips's forthcoming book, Carrying All before Her: Celebrity Pregnancy and the London Stage, 1689-1800!
15 Sep 2021
Thx to conf program cmttee @Drjmorton @kekondrlik @FIBaillet and Laura Vorachek for a terrific @RS4VP conference: great papers, great keynote @aphrabel, & great panel moderating!
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15 Sep 2021
Thank you to @TempleUniv’s online organizers Anna Peak & @DougGreenfield & team for @RS4VP conf tech support & trouble shooting!
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10 Sep 2021
So excited to be talking to @RS4VP about Queen Victoria’s first pregnancy in the periodical press at our conference presentation today! #RSVP2021 #VivelaRSVP
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3 Sep 2021
The final episode of Victorian samplings includes my thoughts on a mother's petition to the foundling hospital. You can listen to this, and to the fascinating interviews with @kbourrier and @c19_pregnancy at this link
craftingcommunities.net/vict… @drbel @19_birkbeck @craftyvictorian
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14 Aug 2021
Thank you to @DrVickyMills, @kbourrier and @c19_pregnancy for three fascinating and important conversations about the material culture of parenting and pregnancy in the 19th c. Did we save the best for last?? Check out Victorian Samplings Episode 11: craftingcommunities.net/vict…
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15 Jul 2021
Thanks to the the two of you @c19_pregnancy, for your wonderful paper and the no less wonderful discussion!. Will be thinking about the convergences that you pointed out between these different #EllenWood novels for a while!
14 Jul 2021
Many thanks to our co-panelists Maria Luisa De Rinaldis & @FelEspinoz for their stimulating papers & discussion, Mariaconcetta Constantini for chairing, audience members for attending & @RichardsonA_M for live tweeting our panel @VPFA1's #VPFAInclusion!
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14 Jul 2021
Many thanks to our co-panelists Maria Luisa De Rinaldis & @FelEspinoz for their stimulating papers & discussion, Mariaconcetta Constantini for chairing, audience members for attending & @RichardsonA_M for live tweeting our panel @VPFA1's #VPFAInclusion!
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14 Jul 2021
Thanks to @JessJCox @BrunelVictorian for a wonderful plenary on "Excluding the Maternal Body in Victorian Popular Literature" @VPFA1's #VPFAInclusion! Such rich readings, from Collins & Wood to Braddon & Zola, of pregnancy's traumatic effacement in Vic lit & culture.
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13 Jul 2021
We're excited to be presenting on pregnancy in Ellen Wood's fiction @VPFA1's #VPFAInclusion conference this week! Thx to Anne-Marie Beller @AiliseBulfin @Janine_Hatter & Erin Louttit for organizing!
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13 Jul 2021
What was #childbirth like for women in the days of early-modern medicine?
Join @foxvshedgehog as they discuss their forthcoming title #GivingBirth (April 2022) with @historylitmed.
🗓️15 July
🕑15:00-16:00
📨RSVP a.blackwood@northumbria.ac.uk
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11 Jul 2021
Before UEFA hand out any trophies here at @HealthHumsNorth we're announcing the next online talk in our 'Midwifery and the Humanities' series - this Thursday 3-4pm: Dr Sarah Fox 'Ethical Promises in Early Modern Midwives Oaths' DM or email a.blackwood@northumbria.ac.uk for link!
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10 Jul 2021
You have not missed your chance to hear Deborah Wynne talk about a very very small treasure- a Brontë little book. Explore this gem and other facets of 19th-C. paper history via Victorian Samplings: Episode 6 #Brontë @BronteParsonage @craftyvictorian
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