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TTOD174 Stitching Friends: Quaker Schoolgirl Embroidery in Seventeenth-Century London

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This is a recording of a live online event held on Wednesday 26 February 2025.

In this talk, Isabella 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.

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This is a recording of a live online event held on Wednesday 26 February 2025.

In this talk, Isabella 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

In order to watch this Talk, first please ‘add to basket’ then go to the checkout and pay for your purchase. Once you have purchased this Talk on Demand you can immediately watch it by either returning to this page, or to our main Talks on Demand page, where you will now see a ‘Watch Now‘ button for the Talk. Please note that you will need to be signed in to the site using the account used to purchase the Talk in order to see the button. You will not be emailed a separate link to watch. You can watch as many times as you wish until the close date. Thank you.

For details on other RSN Talks on Demand, please visit our Talks on Demand page. 

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