Prof. Micheline White was invited to give a talk at next week’s “Anne Clifford: Engagements in Culture” conference in Kendal, UK. Her paper is entitled “Anne Clifford’s Devotional Life: The Lifelong Interweaving of Private and Liturgical Prayer.” Anne Clifford is a key figure in seventeenth century literary and material culture. Her historical work, the Great Books of Record, engage with antiquarian, genealogical and biographical trends in the period. Her autobiographies explore the uses and limits of the autobiographical form, while her building projects and economic, social and political management of her extensive land holdings in Westmorland and northwest Yorkshire transformed these communities. This conference will explore Anne Clifford’s work – both in text and on the ground—within her culture. It brings together international scholars who will discuss early modern reading practices, devotional engagement, life-writing and autobiography, and architecture and art. See more about the conference here.
This has been a busy summer for Prof. White. In June, she ran an interdisciplinary research workshop with Jaime Goodrich and Alexandra Marckbank called “Communal worship: Nuns, Laywomen, Agency, Action, and Change” at the Attending to Early Modern Women conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Prof. White is also a co-editor (with Leah Knight and Elizabeth Sauer) of the first essay collection on women’s book history in early modern England, Early Modern Women’s Bookscapes: Reading, Ownership, Circulation, which has just been published by University of Michigan Press. Find out more here.