Masquerade! How women of the eighteenth century cross dressed for adventure, profit and liberty
Channel: ChawtonHouse
Date: 2020-05-16

Dr. Julie Wheelwright discusses her new book, Sisters in Arms: Female Warriors from Antiquity to the New Millennium (Osprey Publishing), bringing alive the real-life stories of Mary Anne Talbot, Hannah Snell and the pirates, Mary Read and Anne Bonny who that you’ll meet in the Man Up! Exhibition. Who were these extraordinary women, why did they go a-soldiering in male disguise, how did they get away with it and what happened to them once they resumed their female lives? And, of course, what do they have to teach us about women’s lives today? All of these questions, and more will be explored in this talk.

Julie’s talk will be followed by a Twitter Q&A.

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Buy Sisters in Arms:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/sisters-in-arms-9781472838025/

Dr Julie Wheelwright is a senior lecturer in the English department at City, University of London. She is the author of Amazons and Military Maids, The Fatal Lover: Mata Hari and the Myth of Women in Espionage, and a biography of her ancestor who was taken captive by indigenous people in 18th-century Maine, Esther: The Remarkable True Story of Esther Wheelwright. A former print and broadcast journalist whose career included producing and contributing to documentaries for BBC radio and television, Channel 4, and the History Channel in Canada, she has written widely on women in the intelligence services and in the military.

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