Celebrating Women’s History Month Part 2
March 17, 2023
We continue to share our author’s picks from their own research of women whose contributions should be better recognized. You can read Part One here. The Memoirs of Ceija Stojka,… READ MORE
Category: Women and Gender Studies
Celebrating Women’s History Month
March 8, 2023
To mark Women’s History Month we asked our authors to pick a woman from their research whose contributions should be better recognized. We’re excited to share their suggestions with you… READ MORE
Marylin: A Novel of Passing
December 6, 2022
We hope you enjoy today’s unique blog post, which was derived from a recent FaceTime call between editors Peter Höyng and Chauncey J. Mellor, whose new English translation of Marylin… READ MORE
The Memoirs of Ceija Stojka: Child Survivor of the Romani Holocaust
December 5, 2022
“In the end we all received a registration number: a white, elongated strip of cloth with a black triangle that meant work-shy. (But how could I be work-shy? I was… READ MORE
International Women’s Day 2021
March 8, 2021
Today we celebrate International Women’s Day 2021 with some recent publications from Boydell & Brewer. Enjoy a fascinating account of the life of one of the most famous women of… READ MORE
Willa Cather
September 7, 2020
One of my favorite letters by Willa Cather was written to one of her former students, Norman Foerster. On January 14, 1931, Cather wrote to decline a speaking invitation from… READ MORE
Writing and Reading Augusta Browne: Composer and Woman of Letters in Nineteenth-Century America
August 5, 2020
Augusta Browne’s life speaks to me as an American, as a woman, and as a musician. An inspiration as I worked on the manuscript of Augusta Browne was imagining my… READ MORE
Women’s History Month 2020
March 5, 2020
This month we recognise Women’s History Month, an annual declared month where the contribution of women to events in history and society are celebrated. It is the hope that one… READ MORE
Camden House’s Women and Gender in German Studies: A Guest Blog Post
October 11, 2019
Two years ago, I was approached by Camden House about the possibility of editing a series on women and gender in German studies. Since gender studies is close to my… READ MORE
My First Book at Boydell: Luise Gottsched the Translator
September 26, 2019
I started at Boydell & Brewer as an editorial assistant in the US office in early 2012, working on Camden House and University of Rochester Press books. One of my… READ MORE
On the “superficiality” of eighteenth-century women’s education