Event Type: Branch

Takes Place: 8th October 2024

Time: 6pm

Venue: Online

Description: This talk focuses on how women of the aristocracy, gentry and middling-sorts in seventeenth-century England conceptualised their own physical attractiveness and that of other women. Diaries, letters, autobiographies, and portraits will be used to show how women sought to present themselves, over successive stages of the lifecycle.

How to book: Book a free place: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-physical-attractiveness-the-female-life-cycle-in-17th-century-tickets-948223410747?aff=oddtdtcreator

Email: leicesterha@gmail.com

Lecturer: Dr Tim Reinke-Williams, University of Northampton

Comments: Joint programme with HA Northampton Branch

Region: East Midlands

Branch: Leicester