The History of Art Postgraduate Research Seminar Series: Material Life Writing: Women, Making, and Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain

The History of Art Postgraduate Research Seminar Series: Material Life Writing: Women, Making, and Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Thursday 21 May 2026 5:00pm to 6:00pm

Lecture Room 1, Faculty of Architecture and History of Art

This paper examines the ways in which several eighteenth-century women, and their contemporaries, used amateur artistic skill to record their social, fashionable, and material lives.

Dr Serena Dyer