TTOT174 Stitching Friends: Quaker Schoolgirl Embroidery in Seventeenth-Century London
RSN Curator Dr Isabella Rosner, Wednesday 26 February 2025. 7pm UK
Join Isabella as she explores the samplers, workboxes, and embroidered accessories of early modern Quaker girls educated in and around the City of London. Surviving examples are surprisingly decorative, contrasting with the plainness that was a tenet central to the Society of Friends from its founding in the 1650s. This talk uses objects across a variety of collections to survey possible reasons for this intriguing aesthetic contradiction.
Dr Isabella Rosner recently received her PhD from King’s College London, where she studied Quaker women’s needlework, waxwork, and shellwork in seventeenth and eighteenth-century London and Philadelphia. Isabella was named a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker in 2023.
About this Online Talk
This event is a live online talk at the given date and time. You will need access to a suitable computer (with audio/video), tablet or smartphone device. Please note that after booking, you will receive your personalised Zoom invite via email one or two days before each event.
Attendees Outside the UK
This Talk will run from 7pm to 8:30pm (19:00 to 20:30 hours) UK local time. If you are outside of the UK please check your local time, particularly if your location changes to/from Daylight Savings Time on a different schedule to the UK during March/April. To check and convert times please visit TimeAndDate.com.
Supporting the RSN
The minimum requested donation for this talk is £8.50 per person, but you may donate a higher value of your choosing if you wish. Please note that Gift Aid is only applicable for donations over £8.50. As a charity, we are very grateful for any support you can give us to put towards the RSN's essential costs. Thank you.
For details on further RSN events, please visit our Online Talks page.
RSN Curator Dr Isabella Rosner, Wednesday 26 February 2025. 7pm UK
Join Isabella as she explores the samplers, workboxes, and embroidered accessories of early modern Quaker girls educated in and around the City of London. Surviving examples are surprisingly decorative, contrasting with the plainness that was a tenet central to the Society of Friends from its founding in the 1650s. This talk uses objects across a variety of collections to survey possible reasons for this intriguing aesthetic contradiction.
Dr Isabella Rosner recently received her PhD from King’s College London, where she studied Quaker women’s needlework, waxwork, and shellwork in seventeenth and eighteenth-century London and Philadelphia. Isabella was named a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker in 2023.
About this Online Talk
This event is a live online talk at the given date and time. You will need access to a suitable computer (with audio/video), tablet or smartphone device. Please note that after booking, you will receive your personalised Zoom invite via email one or two days before each event.
Attendees Outside the UK
This Talk will run from 7pm to 8:30pm (19:00 to 20:30 hours) UK local time. If you are outside of the UK please check your local time, particularly if your location changes to/from Daylight Savings Time on a different schedule to the UK during March/April. To check and convert times please visit TimeAndDate.com.
Supporting the RSN
The minimum requested donation for this talk is £8.50 per person, but you may donate a higher value of your choosing if you wish. Please note that Gift Aid is only applicable for donations over £8.50. As a charity, we are very grateful for any support you can give us to put towards the RSN’s essential costs. Thank you.
For details on further RSN events, please visit our Online Talks page.
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