Programme: Women, Money and Markets, 1600-1950.

June 12-14, 2023

Papers of 20 Minutes

Twitter: #WMM2023

Location 

The conference takes place in the Charles Street Building of Sheffield Hallam University in rooms 12.6.13 and 12.6.09. Our rooms are on the 6th floor of the building (12 refers to the building, 6 to the floor, and 13 and 09 to the rooms). Presentations will take place in the larger room and catering in the other, though as the weather looks to be good, we may also be able to use the roof terrace that opens off our room for refreshments. 

The Charles St Building is located on Charles Street, with entrances on both Charles Street and the main road Arundel Gate. The address is Charles St Building, Sheffield S1 2LQ. 

The building is a 6-minute walk from Sheffield station (according to Google Maps).

Monday, 12 June

Registration, Tea and Coffee: 10.00–11.15

Welcome: 11.15–11.30

Session 1: 11.30–13.00. Writing, Translating, Poetry and Song

Chair: Sarah Dredge

1.      Jay Kerslake, ‘Sister from the mill come out’: Protest and Utopia in the Women   Worker

2.      Whitney Thompson, ‘Poor Feminine Claribel with her Hundred Songs’: Ballads and the Business of Sentiment in 1860s England

3.      Rose Roberto, Working Women: Chambers Encyclopaedia, Authors and Translators, 1850–1900

Lunch: 13.00–14.00

Session 2: 14.00–15.15. Women, Work, Advertising and Protest in the Early-Twentieth Century

Chair: Camille Stallings

1.      Amy Thorpe, The Professional Woman at the Woman’s Kingdom Exhibition, 1914

2.      Lily Ford, Eve the Rib-Maker: Women and Aeroplane Manufacture, 1914–18

Break – tea and coffee: 15.15–15.30

Session 3: 15.30–17.00. Keynote

Professor Emerita Deborah Simonton, Interrogating Women and Industry

18.00. Conference Dinner at Ego. For more information about the restaurant, www.egorestaurants.co.uk/restaurant-sheffield

Tuesday, 13 June

Tea and Coffee: 10.00–10.30

Session 4: 10.30–12.00. Banking, Stockbroking and Investing

Chair: Emma Newport

1.      Phil Winterbottom, ‘To cash paid to herself’: Women as Clients of London’s Banks, 1730–1800

2.      Hazel Vosper, ‘Dear Madam, Your instructions of yesterday’s date are duly to hand & shall receive my total attention’: Doing Business with a Victorian Stockbroker from the Perspective of his Female Clients

3.      Janette Rutterford, “Her voice can become as strident as that of a mongoose”: Female Gadflies in the UK and US in the twentieth century.

Lunch: 12.00–12.45 

Session 5: 13.00–14.45. Women, Ideology and the Political Economies

Chair: Camille Stallings

1.      Julie-Marie Strange, Class, Economy and Ideology: The Materiality of Money in Working-Class Women’s Lives, 1848–1914

2.      Ella Dzelzainis, Working Women: Antisemitism and the Political Economy of Sweating in G. W. M. Reynold’s The Seamstress (1850)

3.      Lana D. Dalley, Women Writers, Political Economy and the Didactic Imperative

4.      Sarah Dredge, Monstrous Women: Mid-Victorian Political Economy and the Problem of Female Desire

Break – tea and coffee: 14.45–15.15

Session 6: 15.15–16.45. Accounting, Consumption, Fashion and Art in the Seventeenth Century

Chair: Pete Collinge

1.       Lizzy Spencer, ‘Besides ye sumes mentioned in this booke’: Exploring the Account Book of Elizabeth Wentworth, 1655–64

2.       Marlo Avidon, The Evelyn Family and Female Clothing Consumption in Seventeenth-Century England

3.      Bethan Davies, The Gendering of Sugar: Women, Sweetness and

Consumerism in Contending for Superiority (1630)

No conference dinner. However, if you would like to join us at the Sheffield Food Hall, please speak to Sarah or Pete by lunchtime so we can reserve a spot at the table for you; for more information about the food venue, see orchardsquare.co.uk/stores/sheffield-plate. You can also enter ‘Sheffield Plate’ into Google or Google Maps.

Wednesday, 14 June

Tea and Coffee: 09.00–09.30

Session 7: 09.30–11.15. Concepts, Ideas and Identity

Chair: Sarah Dredge

1.      Emma Major, Women, Work and Citizenship in the 1790s

2.      Wendy Robins, ‘A general principle of action’: Liberty and Protest in the Work of Catharine Macaulay

3.      Joyce Goggin, Fictional Knitting and Women’s Unseen Labour

4.      Emma Newport, Women Writers and Monetary Fiction in the Eighteenth Century

Break – tea and coffee: 11.15–11.30

Session 8: 11.30–13.15. Reputations and Livelihoods

Chair: Joyce Goggin

1.      Hannah Young, ‘It is quite inconsistent with the character of the noble

Englishman to reduce widows to beggary by forcibly taking their property from them’:  Women, Money and the Slave Compensation Commission

2.      Olivia Biber, The Economy of the Camera in Amy Levy’s The Romance of a Shop (1888)

3.      Pete Collinge, ‘On the recommendation of several respectable families’: the Servants’ Register of Jane Williamson

 4.      Polly Lowe, “Infamous trade”: narratives surrounding the trading of sex, the commodified body and the growth of consumerism in eighteenth-century England

Plenary and lunch: 13.15–14.00