#AphraConference Day 2 - a couple of unexpected absences meant we were a smaller panel this morning, but it was great fun to be speaking alongside Rafael Vélez, both of us on Hortense Mancini💃✨(with a lively audience discussion on the contradiction of the female libertine)

Great plenary by ⁦Mel Evans⁩ on Aphra Behn’s spy letters, exploring the suggestion I put forward in #InvisibleAgents ⁦OUP History⁩ that some of these letters are effectively Behn’s first attempts at epistolary fiction! #AphraConference ⁦AphraBehnConference2024⁩

The AphraBehnConference2024 is here! Take a look below to 👀 books covering a range of topics in #EarlyModernFeminisms, including eighteenth-century women’s writing, the feminist comedic stage, women’s artistic networks & more. #AphraBehn 📚: shorturl.at/CYmqX cc: Early Modern Feminism

Ventured into Canterbury town centre to see the Aphra Behn exhibition The Beaney featuring some of her spy letters & a maquette of the sculpture to be unveiled in February 📜🎭

Another day of wonderful papers at the #AphraConference and I got talk about beauty, morality and disease on this incredible panel with Ceri Fowler and Hannah Straw!

The #AphraConference is in full swing! Had to dash off, but at least I spent a day at the AphraBehnConference2024 - saw some old friends & made some new ones 🙌

A visit to sissinghurst after talking about vita sackville-west, Virginia Woolf and Montague summers at the aphra Behn conference

And that’s a wrap from me! Heading home after an incredible few days AphraBehnConference2024 brimming with new ideas, revived energy, & an Aphra Behn pendant (that pairs perfectly with Vulgar History Podcast’s Mazarinettes t-shirt). Until next time ✨💫

Excellent conference dinner last night - only slight raucous 😂 #AphraConference

Excellent panel yesterday on beauty and VD with Dr Katie Aske, Hannah Straw, and Keele English and Creative Writing’s Ceri Fowler 💄🍆 #AphraConference

Charlotte Cornell’s plenary on Behn’s Kentish Beginnings begins! #fullhouse #AphraConference

#AphraConference fascinating plenary from Charlotte Cornell 🌹✍️ "Rooting Aphra: Behn's Kentish Beginnings".

What an end to our wonderful conference. We had director loveday Ingram along with actors Alexandra Gilbreath and Samuel Collings come to discuss The RSC 2016 The Rover by Aphra Behn with readings of some epic scenes.

A very special visit today by #aphraconference delegates and some guest Cantaburians to see Aphra Behn’s grave in Westminster Abbey - we left a stunning wreath and a spare £ coin, so she doesn’t have to worry about those debts again.

Beautiful wreath laying ceremony for Aphra Behn today at Westminster Abbey. What a fantastic way to end #AphraConference! 💐🌸🌻

Discovered in an exhibit about Aphra Behn, the first woman in England to earn a living from her pen! This particular piece of jewellery was owned in the 1680s by...a canon of Canterbury Cathedral! Don't let anyone tell you that everyone in the past was a prude...

Some random photos from visiting the Aphra Behn exhibition at The Beaney in Canterbury last week. I'll admit I know little about her, but I want to learn more and I'm always interested to see more on Kent and the period too. (1)

Rare Aphra Behn novel found on home bookshelf bbc.in/4cUzTmQ

#ArtMystery Can the missing portrait for found? Please SHARE

💋 The Politics of Pleasure: Scandal, Society, and the Stage under King Charles II 🎟️ Book your free tickets for the talk this Saturday tinyurl.com/wa8pdsjy ℹ️ Suggestive themes 📍 The Beaney, 18 High Street #Canterbury #HistoryTalk #History #AphraBehn