Molly Corlett
My name is Molly Corlett, and I’m a current PhD student at King's College London: the point of this blog is to think through the research I'm doing on the (long) eighteenth century. My thesis focuses on reputation in the North of England between 1660 and 1800, but I'm also working on a project about black servants in late eighteenth-century England.
Slander and ‘double sex’: an LGBT history month post
28 February 2018
N.B.: This post mentions clitoridectomy. I use the word ‘lesbian’ here as a catch-all category for desire and intimacy between women, rather than an identity label....
Telling stories in eighteenth-century slander cases
30 June 2017
A few themes kept coming up at the Litigating Women conference which I’ve just returned from. One of the discussions which I found most interesting was about narrativity and agency:...
2 February 2017
A 1686 petition from the ‘inhabitants’ of Boothstown, a hamlet in the township of Worsley (now in the city of Salford), complained about an ‘idle loose fellow...
Law & esteem in mid-eighteenth century Newcastle
13 December 2016
On the 22nd of September 1750, the Reverend Edmund Tew gave a sermon as part of the Carlisle assizes (a regional court which tried the most serious cases referred by county sessions)....