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
Category: Women and Gender Studies
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
Celebrating Women in Translation Month
August 21, 2019
This August we celebrate Women in Translation Month. Women in Translation month began in 2014, from the initiative of book blogger Meytal Radzinski. Radzinski set out to encourage and challenge… READ MORE
Treasure in the Attic: Boyce Papers
June 7, 2019
Following the launch of her volume, The Boyce Papers: The Letters and Diaries of Joanna Boyce, Henry Wells and George Price Boyce, at London’s Royal Academy of Arts in April,… READ MORE
University of Rochester Press celebrates Women’s History Month!
March 22, 2019
University of Rochester Press celebrates Women’s History Month with five featured titles that reflect the rich diversity of African, African-American, and Diaspora Studies. These five books all either by or… READ MORE
Material Enlightenment
March 1, 2019
Dr Joanna Wharton’s new book looks at the writings and lives of five very different women – Anne Barbauld, Honora Edgeworth, Hannah More, Elizabeth Hamilton and Maria Edgeworth – whose… READ MORE
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