H2020Индивидуална стипендия2020–2022

WEN · Women's Epistolary Networks, 1600-1700: Ireland and Beyond

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2020-09-28 → 2022-09-27
Финансиране от ЕС: 212 934 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Писмата на жените от благородническото семейство Бойл разкриват как те са общували и оцелявали по време на граждански войни и чума през XVII век. Тяхното събиране и публикуване помага да се разбере женската перспектива и социалният живот в Ирландия и Британия.

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Women's Epistolary Networks, 1600-1700: Ireland and Beyond

The Boyle women were members of a large, hugely successful, noble Protestant family with vast lands and powerful connections stretching across Ireland, Britain and Europe. Up to now scholarship has failed to recognize the existence of a large archive of these women’s letters which present a rare female perspective on a period of enormous change and upheaval. The letters provide a mine of information about gendered praxes, cultural trends, and how the experiences of civil war, displacement and the plague impacted on seventeenth-century life, both in Ireland and elsewhere. By retrieving, preserving and studying the Boyle women’s letters, the project addresses how and to what effect the female members in this family used their correspondence network to stay connected across vast distances and to navigate the multiple crises which they encountered during the course of their lives. At the outside of the project, it was estimated that approximately 350 of the women’s outgoing letters may have survived. However, due to cataloguing practices and the wide dispersal of the letters, no one had previously attempted to locate and record the details of these letters, nor consider their wider implications. The project’s main objective was to find all of the Boyle women’s letters and to prepare them for publication as a scholarly edition with the Irish Manuscripts Commission [IMC]. The edition will ensure that these primary historical sources are preserved and made accessible to a wide readership and to scholars working in the areas of women’s writing, aristocratic families, socio linguistics, and the social history of early modern Ireland and Britain. The edition will thus fill a significant gap in the scholarship for the seventeenth century, but more broadly it will help to transform understandings of the relationship between literature, history and women’s writing.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Collaborating with Dr Ramona Wray (RW) of Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), an authority in editing and early modern women’s writing, the experienced researcher, Dr Ann-Maria Walsh (AMW), will undertake a fellowship – Women’s Epistolary Networks, 1600-1700: Ireland and Beyond (WEN) – to examine how one family of seventeenth-century women corresponded across European territories. At the centre of the fellowship are the 350+ manuscript letters produced between 1605 and 1691 by the Boyle women – the wife, daughters, daughters-in-law and grand-daughters of the 1st Earl of Cork. These extant and largely unexplored letters reflect the perspectives of three different generations and coincide with a hugely significant and tumultuous period in Irish, British and European history. Interweaving the disciplines of English, history, gender studies, Irish studies and European Studies, the fellowship will transform understandings of the relationship between literature, history and women’s writing. The fellowship will facilitate AMW’s mobility and produce a website, a major scholarly edition, an interdisciplinary conference and a co-edited volume of essays. Relevant training will run throughout the fellowship. A secondment will ground the fellowship’s archival scholarship in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) and equip AMW with practical experience of archiving, curatorship and electronic cataloguing. This will allow AMW to develop the skills necessary to work effectively across European archives and embed the intersectoral skills increasingly required of an academic today. In addition, the mentorship of RW will provide an apprenticeship in editing which, alongside a previously published monograph, will establish AMW as a leading scholar of seventeenth century women’s history and literature. In this way, the fellowship will advance AMW in her scholarly achievements and richly enhance her career prospects.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST · BELFASTКоординаторОбединеното кралство