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Workshop 2: Representations of Country House Servants
April 24 @ 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
June 2024: Manchester Metropolitan University
9.00-9.15: Introduction and welcome
9.15-9.50: Karen Lipsedge, Kingston University: ‘What’s in a name? The representation of country house servants in eighteenth century fiction’
9.50-10.25: Richard Ansell, Birkbeck, University of London: ‘Self-Representations of Servants on the 18th-Century Grand Tour’
10.25-10.45: Coffee break
10.45-11.20: Sophie Dunn: ‘Representations of Servants in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Conduct Manuals’
11.20-11.40: Literary and prescriptive sources: normalising behaviour?
11.40-12.15: Kate Retford, Birkbeck, University of London: ‘British servant portraiture, gender, and the case of “Betty the little”’
12.15-13.15: Lunch
13.15-13.50: Johanna Ilmakunnas, Åbo Akademi University: ‘Servants’ work, material culture and space in Swedish gender paintings: Pehr Hilleström (1732–1816)’
13.50-14.25: John Chu, The National Trust: ‘Peripheral Vision: Servant portraits and spaces for domestic service in 18th-century Britain’
14.25-14.45: Coffee break
14.45-15.20: Bård Frydenlund, Eidsvoll 1814: ‘From the Viceroy’s page boy to constitutional servant to royal postmaster: 150 years of mythmaking and fallacies regarding Viceroy Gyldenløve’s page boy in Constitution Hall, Eidsvoll House’
15.20-15.40: Visual sources: telling stories