Great start to the second day of Adventurous Wives with the Travelling Wives Panel. Thank you to the speakers Trudie Messent, Judith Stove and Maite Ávila Martinez for amazing papers

Day 2 of Adventurous Wives & second keynote by Prof Elaine Chalus Great to see so many delegates assembled, including English at Soton University of Southampton History Department colleagues & grad students past & present. #AdventurousWives

Wonderful to be sitting down to a keynote by Prof Elaine Chalus, whose work I've admired for so long, presenting new research about the "female selfhood", "resourcefulness" and "resilience" of four #AdventurousWives

Fabulous Saturday keynote by Prof Elaine Chalus #AdventurousWives Rodney said to say thank you, you can only see the back of his head as he was watching the screen throughout 🐶👏🏻

Very much enjoying wonderful #AdventurousWives conference. Exciting panel coming up on Public Sphere Wives from Dr Hillary Burlock, Sandra Gomez, and Eva Lippold. #twitterstorians

The first panels of the afternoon have just started - Inheritances and Public Sphere Wives. #AdventurousWives

There are so many fascinating details in Hogarth's work! Very much enjoying hearing Sandra Gomez Todo unpack the significance of 'Marriage a la Mode' in relation to adultery and the masquerade #AdventurousWives

Another excellent panel, this time on Radical Wives, reflecting the complexity of women's performance conformity/non-conformity as wives via papers on Eliza Park Custis, and the authors Anna Barbauld & Mary Robinson. #Adventurous Wives #twitterstorians

Just about to start the final event of the conference - the roundtable with the fabulous Sophie Coulombeau Helen Paul and Dr Julie Gammon 💙 #AdventurousWives

Thank you so much to all our speakers, delegates, tech crew, chairs, pets and everyone who made this weekend’s #AdventurousWives conference such a stimulating and enjoyable event. Huge thanks also to to ChawtonHouse Economic History Society British Association for Romantic Studies for their support.

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