Martine van Elk
The purpose of this blog is to give greater visibility to those women who have not received much attention in the international academy and to explore the diverse artistic expressions of women across disciplinary and national boundaries. The blog highlights the lives and works of women of different nationalities, religions, and social status. My own research has been focused on English and Dutch women, but I would also like to feature blog entries on women from Scotland, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain, and elsewhere, both to introduce some of these women to a wider audience and to explore the value of interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of their works, writings, and art. Because I want to consider the different forms in which women expressed themselves, this blog is about texts and objects. Guest blogs and comments are welcome.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
early modern women Dutch Women Writers Religious women History literary history Art History English women writers Objects Playwrights interdisciplinarity women's history Engraving
Gesine Brit: A Dutch Poet Defending Justice and Religious Freedom
6 June 2023
By Francesco Quatrini Figure 1. Balthasar Bernards, after Louis Fabritius Dubourg, Baptism at the Rijnsburger Collegiants (Doop bij de Rijnsburgse Collegianten), ca. 1736. RP-P-AO-10-48....
Laundry in the Cityscapes of Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam
18 February 2021
Figure 1. Hendrik Keun, De Kleine Vismarkt aan het begin van de Singel, 1770. Traces of pencil and pen in grey, 290 x 403 mm, Amsterdam City Archives, 10097: Collectie Stadsarchief...
Susanna Teellinck, the Earliest Known Dutch Reformed Woman Editor and Biographer
10 July 2019
In this blog post, Amanda Pipkin draws attention to a little known Dutch editor and biographer, making the important argument that because “authorship” can take many forms...
The First Woman Shakespeare Scholar Questions “Genius”
26 April 2019
In this blog post, Susan Carlile explores Charlotte Lennox’s groundbreaking work on Shakespeare, which made her one of his first editors and literary critics and also allowed...