Conference: Silence in the Archives: Censorship and Suppression in Women’s Life-Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century

convenors Alexis Wolf and Lyndsey Jenkins
While diaries, journals, letters, and memoirs offer a window into the past, paradoxically it is often the absences in the archives, which provide the most insight into women’s lives in the nineteenth century. Women’s life writing is intrinsically tied up with censorship, by the self and others. This conference will bring together researchers from across a range of disciplines in the humanities to explore the extent and the significance of omissions in women’s life writing and question what silences in the archives can tell us about what it meant to be a woman in the nineteenth century.
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