'I can work all manner of Works': the meanings of labour in the works of Hannah Wolley (c.1622-74?)

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• Sara Pennell, University of Greenwich
• Thursday 25 April 2024, 17:00-19:00
• History Faculty Room 11.

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My biographical work-in-progress on Hannah Wolley aims to resituate her as one of the pioneering commentators on seventeenth-century women’s vocational education and training. Wolley undertook this work from a position of experience, with a curriculum vitae that maps onto the changing opportunities for women like her either side of the Civil war and Interregnum eras. Her Guide for Ladies (1668) was a new type of conduct-cum-advice manual, with Wolley’s forthright views on women’s education front and centre. As a work about work by a working woman, it is a case study that allows us to reconfigure domestic and feminine skills away from the moral, towards the marketable in the later Stuart metropolis.

This talk is part of the Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars series.

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