CONFERENCES PAST
	Papers read at the annual meeting of the North American Conference on British Studies, Toronto, Canada, 2-4 November 2001 "Dick Whittington and the Limits of Commemoration in Early Modern London" Joseph Ward, University of Mississippi "Picturing the Merchant Hero: The Portraits of Sir Thomas White" Robert Tittler, Concordia University "Not All Merchants are Created Equal: Saving Distinctions in Mid-17th Century Reformist Literature" Blair Hoxby, Yale University "Ploughmen, Milkmaids, and Sex in Eighteenth-Century Popular Songs" Robin Ganev, York University "On the Receiving End: Women and Stolen Goods in London, 1783-1815" Kathy Callahan, Marquette University "Masculinity and Authority in the Wooden World: Mutiny Cases in the British Navy, 1680-1720" Jennine Hurl-Eamon, York University "Woman's Work: Women in Mid-Century Industrial Fiction" Lynn Alexander, University of Tennessee at Martin "Working-class Fiction and the Strategies of Revolution" Margaret Loose, University of Iowa "`Crossed Lives' in the Poetry of Fanny Forrester" Florence Boos, University of Iowa "`Less Orthodox Sisters': Women's Ambulance Units, Homosociality, and the Front" Laura Doan, State University of New York, Geneseo "Whose Conspirary? Sexuality and the Nurse in World War One" Angela Smith, University of Plymouth "Eyes Front/Whose Front: Visual Representations of the Red Cross Nurse in England and France during WWI" Bridget Elliott, University of Western Ontario "`His Heart Throbbed to a New and Strange Music': War and the `Intermediate Type'" Tracy Hargreaves, University of Leeds "`Bringing back the Light and Driving out the Darkness': Cuthbert Tunstall on Humanism as an Instrument of Legal Reform" Mark Loudon, University of Toronto "`A Thing Very Easy': Richard Morison's Proposals for Edwardian Reform" Janice Liedl, Laurentian University "Valuing Honour: Common Law Liability for Defamation in Sixteenth-Century England" Kelly De Luca, Columbia University "`For I will Not Be a Patron unto Heretics': The 1538 Trial of John Lambert" Sarah Covington, City University of New York" "Indian Oculists before the Old Bailey: British Justice and Indian Medicine in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain" Martin Wainwright, University of Akron "Intention and Incomprehension: Britain and Indian Nationalism, 1931-1935" Andrew Muldoon, Saint Anselm College "Postcards from the Raj" Steven Patterson, University of Memphis "Feasting, Entertainment, and Patronage: Borough Corporations and the Politics of Hospitality, 1580-1640" Catherine Patterson, University of Houston "Slingsby Bethel's Opposition to Feasting in Theory and Practice, 1671-1689" Anne McGowan, Lucy Cavendish College "Partisan Fraternity: London Feasts of 1682 Compared with the Parisian Banquet Campaign of 1847-48" Newton Key, Eastern Illinois University "Shopping for the Church" Anne Laurence, The Open University "Seventeenth-Century Women: Patterns of Consumer Behavior" Sara Mendelson, McMaster University "Gender, Savings, and Disciplined Desires: Shaping a Modern Consumer Society in England, c.1780-1850" Beverly Lemire, University of New Brunswick "`Class' and `Country' Identities among Farm Workers in Nineteenth-Century England" Ian Dyck, Simon Fraser University "The Myth of `the People': Leaders and Followers in Ashton Chartism, 1838-1848" Robert G. Hall, Ball State University "Samuel Bamford, Peterloo, and the Politics of Radical Memory" Martin Hewitt, Trinity and All Saints, University of Leeds "What is a West Indian?" Catherine Hall, University College, London "Imperialism as a Radical Resource" Marilyn Lake, LaTrobe University "Treacherous Englishness" Bill Schwarz, Goldsmith's College, University of London "Scenes of A Literary Life: The Romantic Domestic Interior" Margot Finn, University of Warwick "Personality on Display: Home and Self, 1880-1914" Deborah Cohen, American University "Clap If You Believe in Sherlock Holmes: `Animistic Rationalism' and the Modern Self" Michael Saler, University of California, Davis "Defending Sovereignty: The Banda Islands in Anglo-Dutch Foreign Relations, 1613-32" Ken MacMillan, McMaster University "Societal Collapse on St. Helena, 1675-1725" Jim Alsop, McMaster University "A Perfect Eden: Contestants for Imperial Management of Vancouver Island, a Chapter in Mid-Victorian Empire Building" Barry Gough, Wilfrid Laurier University "Joanna and Stedman: An Atlantic Relation Between Slave and Free" Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto "The Mercy of the People" Cynthia Herrup, Duke University "The Popular Acculturation of Entitlement under the Elizabethan Poor Laws" Steve Hiddle, University of Warwick "Popular Politics and Prerogative Writs, with or without the King" Paul Halliday, University of Virginia "The Anxieties of Sightseeing: Visual and Gastronomic Pleasure in Travel Writing" Chloe Chard "Fumes and Perfumes: Some Eighteenth-Century Uses of Smell" Clare Brant, King's College, London "An Acquired Taste: Stomaching the New in Early Modern Culture" Sara Pennell, Birkbeck College "`Cuttings, Stabbings, Rippings, Slashings': Vaccination, `Infant Vivisection', and the Vulnerable Victorian Body" Nadja Durbach, University of Utah "Keeping Body and Soul Together: Domestic Visiting in Late Victorian Manchester" Susan Ferry, Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL "Appetites as `Regular' as the Machine: Politics and Hunger Pangs in Mary Barton and Victorian Social Investigation" Tamara Ketabgian, University of Utah "`Waxey Words': Meanings of Crime in London, 1560-1660" Paul Griffiths, Iowa Sate University "Urban Popular Politics and Rural Rebellion: The 1549 Rebellions and Urban Society" Andy Wood, University of East Anglia "Urban Disorder in England, 1450-1600" Ian Archer, Keble College, Oxford "`Bonafide Business Becomes a Barnum's Beauty Because Bright Bounding Boys Bellow "Bravo Belmont"' or, the Big Man, the Small Hall, and the Champion Alliterative Ad'atcher" Ann Featherstone, Royal Holloway College, University of London "`Sometimes the Thoughts go Slumming': The Decadents and Music Hall Literature" Audra Himes "Elsie and Doris Waters, Jack Warner, and the Female Double-Act in British Music Hall and Variety" Paul St. Pierre, Simon Fraser University "Contradictions in the Development of Education in the British West Indies after 1838" Nigel Bolland, Colgate University "`Working Cutlass and Shovel': Labour and Redemption at the Onderneeming School in British Guiana" Juanita De Barrow, York University "British Attitudes to Child Labour in the Colonies of the Caribbean 1838-1900" Audra Diptee, University of Toronto "Luxury and War" Linda Levy Peck, George Washington University "Penitential Spaces: The Geography of Penance, c.1500-1600" Dave Postles, Leicester University "Locating Privacy in Early Modern England" Lena Cowen Orlin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County "Alternative Theaters: the Use of Urban Space by Touring Entertainers in Early Modern England" Sally-Beth MacLean, University of Toronto "Locke's Critique of Innateness and Early Modern Travel" Daniel Carey, National University of Ireland, Galway "John Locke and the Toleration of `Non-Christians'" John Marshall, The Johns Hopkins University "Locke's Carolina Revisited" David Armitage, Columbia University "Controlling the Speculator: Labour and the Property Market in the 1960s" Peter Weiler, Boston College "The Cost of Equal Pay: Labour and Women's Militancy in the 1960s" Dolly Smith Wilson, Boston College "The Labour Party, Women, and Social Change in the 1960s" Steven Fielding, University of Salford "Keeping the Faith with Socialism: The Failure of Revisionism and the Creation of `Old Labour', 1951-64" James Cronin, Boston College "`Penetrated by Moral Passion': The Accelerated Courtship of Victorian Love at First Sight" Christopher Matthews, University of Michigan "Idle Hands, Dangerous Diversion: Reading Sensation Fiction and the Meta-Narrative Reading Lessons in Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret" Daniela Janes, University of Toronto "Under the Influence: Seduction and Intoxication in the Victorian S'eance" Marlene Tromp, Denison University "I Want to Know if What I saw in One Newspaper is True: Women Writers, Female Detectives, and Print at the Turn of the Century" Carla Kungl, Shippensburg University "The Violence of Manhood in Early Modern England, 1560-1660" Alexandra Shepard, University of Sussex "Public Sphere or Civil Society? Gender and Coffeehouse Society in Post-Restoration England" Brian Cowan, Yale University "The Pleasures of Merryland: Masculinity and Erotic Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain" Karen Harvey, University of Manchester "Parish-Assisted Emigration from England to Upper Canada (Ontario): An 1830s Strategy for Social Control Considered and Rejected" Wendy Cameron, Partners in Wordforce "Speaking for Ourselves: The View from Sussex" Sheila Haines "Past and Present in Susanna Moodie's Roughing It in the Bush; or, Life in Canada" Jane Mattison, Blekinge Institute of Technology "Epic Stories and the Mobility of Modernity: Gender, Family, and Memory in Narratives of British Migration to Canada and Australia Since 1945" A. James Hammerton, La Trobe University "Thomas Harrison's Opposition to the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, 1659-59: A Case of Civil Disobedience?" Joyce Sampson, Florida State University "Gone to Heaven: The Context of The Narrative of the Persecution of Agnes Beaumont" Alana Cain Scott, Morehead State University "Lay Preachers in the Early 1640s: The Case of `Prophet' Hunt" Paul Christianson, Queen's University "The Idea of Modern Luxury, and the Invention of British Consumer Goods" Maxine Berg, University of Warwick "Shopping and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century London" Claire Walsh, University of Warwick "Luxury and Labour: Ideas of Labouring-Class Consumption in Eighteenth-Century England" Jonathan White, University of Warwick "Cultures of Localism and Nationalism in the Age of Revolution" Michael S. Smith, University of California, Riverside "`The Welfare and Character of All Large Towns': Exploring Provincial Identity in Mid-Victorian Britain" Anne Rodrick, Wofford College "Running the World from Home: The Enduring Localism of the Victorian Ruling Class" James Cornelius "Influence, Patronage, and Bribery: Small Town Politics in Mid-Victorian Britain" Ed Jaggard, Edith Cowan University "Mothers and Grand Dames: Women and the Patronage System" Anne Kugler, John Carroll University "Objects of Charity? Old Women and the Old Poor Law System" Susannah Ottaway, Carleton College "War Widows and the English State, 1600-1800" Geoffery Hudson, Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine "Women and the Nation: the Right and Projections of Feminized Political Images in Great Britain, 1800-1918" Matthew Hendley, State University of New York, Oneonta "The Construction of Smoking as a Feminine Practice, Britain 1920-1940" Penny Tinkler, University of Manchester "`Is it a Girl? Is it a Boy? No, it's Twiggy': Fashion, Gender, and Body Images during the 1960s" Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska, University of Illinois, Chicago "`More than a Dance Hall, More a Way of Life': Northern Soul, Masculinity, and Working Class Culture in 1970s Britain" Barry Doyle, University of Teesside "The Local and the Global: New Internationalism and the Reconfiguration of National and Transnational Citizenship during and after the First World War" Frank Trentmann, Birkbeck College, London "Transnational Perspectives on Imperial Rule: Age of Consent Legislation and the Diversity of Colonial Rule in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Centuries Britain" Philippa Levine, University of Southern California "The Imperial Origins of International Labor Law from the Berlin Conference (1884-85) to the Second World War" Kevin Grant, Hamilton College "The Lords of Humankind Revisited" Catherine Hall, University College, London "Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Literature" Heather Meakin, Case Western Reserve University "Atlantic World/Early Modern Empire" Eliga H. Gould, University of New Hampshire "Britain, Europe, and Comparison" Deborah Cohen, American University "Modern Britain/ Imperial Britain; What's the Difference?" Jessica Harland-Jacobs, University of Florida "Race/Modern Empire/Global Connections" Madhavi Kale, Bryn Mawr College "Teaching British Studies with the Web" Peter Hansen, NACBS Webmaster, Worcester Polytechnic Institute "Horse Bones: An Archaeological Approach to the Early Medieval Horse" Kerry Cathers, University of Reading "Stalking a Dark Horse: Fealwe Mearas in Beowulf" Jennifer Neville, Royal Holloway College, University of London "Records of War: The Horse in English Armies in the Fifteenth Century" Anne Curry, University of Reading "Of Turncoats, Trimmer, and Tender Consciences: The Problem of Loyalty in 17th Century England" Rachel Weil, Cornell University "The Limits of Loyalty in the Glorious Revolution: A Revolution in the Church" Steven Pincus, University of Chicago "Revisiting Republicanism in the 1690s: Anticlericalism, Toleration, and the Politics of Religion" Justin Champion, Royal Holloway College, University of London "The Limits of Loyal and Party Allegiance in the Early 18th Century"  Mark Knights, University of East Anglia "Bible Christian Women in the Field: From the Local to the Global" Jennifer Lloyd, State University of New York, College at Brockport "`God Chose What is Weak in the World to Shame the Strong': A Lancashire Lass at the Intersection of Christianity and Feminism" Barbara Blaszak, LeMoyne College "`The Right to Labour, Love, and Pray': The Girls' Friendly Society and the Shaping of Working-Class Girls' Activism, 1875-1914" Jacqueline DeVries, Augsburg College "Professional Writers, Amateur Authors: The Ambivalence over Professionalisation in Nineteenth-Century Literature" Laura Fasick, Minnesota State University, Moorhead "Reading Shakespeare in Victorian London: Charles Dickens and the London Shakespeare Club" Katherine Scheil, University of Rhode Island "`The Second Act': Theodosia Garrow Trollope and Frances Power Cobbe on the Kingdom of Italy" Esther Schor, Princeton University "The Oratorical Turn in Nineteenth-Century British Public Life" Joseph Meisel, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation "Reconceiving National Character: The Remains of the British Estate Novel" John J. Su, Marquette University "Cultural Courtship: The Construction of National Space and Identity in the Post-War Anglo-American Relationship" Michelle Harper, University of Michigan "Representing National Character: Horizons, Horizontalities, and Topographies of the Independent Group" Jennifer Way, University of North Texas "Pre-Raphaelitism and Post-Modern Commodity Culture" Wai Lee, University of Toronto "Commodities, War, and the Politics of Marriage: English Middle-Class Feminine Identity in India during the `Mutiny'" Erika Rappaport, University of California, Santa Barbara "Status Anxiety, Aging, and Ennui: Colonial Retirees in Late Imperial Britain" Elizabeth Buettner, University of York "After Everest: Gender, Empire, and Adventure Landscapes, 1945-1960" Wendy Webster, University of Central Lancashire "Leaseholders of Monastic Lands and Tithes in Devon before and after the Dissolution" Allison Fizzard, University of Regina "Cardinal Pole and the Restoration of English Monasticism" Thomas Mayer, Augustana College "Paying the Prioress: The After-Lives of the Ex-Religious" Margaret McGlynn, Wellesley College "`Anomalies not Miracles': Thomas Browne's Collecting Impulse" Maria Zytaruk, University of Toronto "Buying on a Budget: Antiquaries Collecting, and the Commodification of Antiquities" Jenny McKenney, University of Toronto "Collecting Women: Miscellaneous Poetry, Miscellaneous Lives" Chantel Lavoie, University of Toronto "The Geostrategic Periphery in British Foreign Policy, 1874-1914" Thomas Gerard Otte, University of the West of England, Bristol "British Views of FDR: New Light on an Old Problem" Keith Neilson, Royal Military College of Canada "At the Coal Face: Anglo-American Ambassadorial Relations and the Far Eastern Crisis: 1932-1939" Greg Kennedy, King's College, London "Secularization and Other Master Narratives of Religion in Twentieth Century Britain" Jeffrey Cox, University of Iowa "`To Plant the British Flag on that Barbaric Temple': G.K. Chesterton and English Religious Identity in the 20th Century" Susan Hanssen, Rice University "Bishop Robinson's Honest to God and the Discourse on Patriarchy in Mid-20th Century Britain" D.L. LeMahieu, Lake Forest College "What Happened to Religion in the Sixties?" Hugh McLeod, University of Birmingham "Before the Shutters Fall: Shopkeepers and Photography in Britain and France in the Early Twentieth-Century" Geoffrey Crossick, University of Essex "Family Photography in Manchester, 1860-1914" Nicole Herz, University of Virginia "Defining the Private Sphere: Amateur Photography and Film in Britain and Germany, 1890s to 1930s" Bernhard Rieger, Iowa State University "`Swarming Howling Wretches': Christina Rossetti and the Indian Mutiny" Sarah Winters, University of Toronto "Gender, Genre, and Mutiny: Flora Annie Steele's On The Face of the Waters (1896)" Ann-Barbara Graff, University of Toronto "Differing Daughters of Empire: E. Pauline Johnson and Elizabeth Louise Mair on the Riel Resistances" Melanie Stevenson, McMaster University
	Papers read at the annual meeting of the Northeast Conference on British Studies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, 16-17 November 2001 "Places of the Heart: England's Landscape and Architecture in Literary Propaganda for American Readers, 1914-1916" Louise Harrison Lepera, Boston University "Beyond the Battlefield: The Power of Poison Gas Imagery on the British Homefront during World War I" Marion Girard, Yale University "In Love and War: The RAF Officer in Popular Romantic Narratives of the 1940s and 1950s" Martin Francis, Royal Holloway, University of London "'Maiden Preacher, Wife and Mother': The Life of Mary O'Bryan Thorne" Jennifer M. Lloyd, SUNY at Brockport "'Religio Laici' John Cannon and the Church of England, 1684-1743" John Money, University of Victoria "'Our People Die Well': Death-bed Scenes in Methodist Magazines in Eighteenth-Century Britain" Richard Bell, Harvard University "Official Geography Across Colonial Frontiers: The Case of British Geodesy in South, Central, and East Africa, 1882-1939" Lindsay Frederick Braun, Rutgers University "The Role of Colonial Geological Surveys in the British Empire: The Case of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Canada" Brian C. Shipley, Dalhousie University "Under the Aegis of the Poly Flag: The Polytechnic Co-Operative Educational Tours and the Cultural Construction of the British Citizen" Michele Strong-Irwin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "The Lore and Lure of the Mosquito Coast in the Eighteenth Century" Nicholas Rogers, York University "The New England Contours of British Imperial Chauvinism" Mark Power Robison, Brandeis University "'Provided We Will But Save Them the Trouble of Thinking': The African Institution of London and British Involvement in Sierra Leone, 1807-1823" Wayne Ackerson, Salisbury State University "Economic Thought and Imperialist Ideologies: Britain versus Ireland" Jill Bradbury, Brown University "Proper and Improper Profit: A Socio-Analytical Paradox in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England" Andrea Finkelstein, Bronx Community College, CUNY "The Watchful Industrialist: The Diary of Joseph Ryder" Matthew Kadane, Brown University "Popular Concepts of Masculinity and Adventure in Anglo-American Society at the turn of the Century: Gender, Popular Culture and the Frontiers of Imperialism, 1880-1918" Jeremy H. Neill, Northeastern University "Creating the `Feminine India': Racialized Images of Indian Male Bodies in Pre-Mutiny British Travelogues" Joseph Sramek, CUNY Graduate Center "Disease, Degeneration, and the Late Victorian Fear of Homosexuality" Henry Sangberg, Montgomery County College "Dr. Walford Bodie M.D., `The Famous Bloodless Surgeon' and his Dramatic Challenge to the Medical Profession in Britain, c.1895-1920" N. Amanda Crocker, York University "Charlie Chaplin and the First World War" Andrew Horrall, National Archives of Canada "'Johnny Go Home!': Images of the Runaway in 1970s London" Howard L. Malchow, Tufts University "An Open Elite: The Peculiarities of Virtuoso Connoisseurship in Early Modern England" Brian Cowan, Yale University "Sarah Jenyns Churchill: Politics and Landscape Design at Blenheim Palace" Kathleen H. Szpila, Temple University "(Jewelry Owners Come and Go, But) Diamonds Sell Forever: Madame la Comtesse Du Barry's Jewelry Auction" Lynn F. Schibeci, University of New Mexico "Was There a Conception of a Calvinist International in Sixteenth-Century England?" D.J.B. Trim, Newbold College, Bracknell, England "'For I Will Not Be a Patron Unto Heretics': The 1538 Trial of John Lambert" Sarah Covington, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY "Atheism Fears in Context: Examining Anti-Atheist Material in England, 1600-1750" Melanie Gustin, Brown University "Representative Men, Exceptional Women? Gender and the Writing of Climbing History" Carol A. Osborne, Lancaster University "Bringing Gender and Class Home in the Bawdy Tales of Nineteenth-Century Merchant Sailors" Valeria Burton, Memorial University of Newfoundland "(Troubling) Spaces of Mountains and Men: New Zealand's Mount Cook and Hermitage Lodge" Karen M. Morin, Bucknell University
	Papers Read at the Southern Conference on British Studies in conjunction with the Southern Historical Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, 17-19 November 2001  "'And Made his Moder A Prophete': Lollards and the Cult of the Virgin Mary" Candace Gregory, Loyola University of New Orleans "The Early Defense of Lambeth Calvinism: Recognition and Resistance in Lincolnshire" John Morgan, Ryerson Polytechnic University "Gloucester and the Reform: Establishing Lay Support for Protestantism During the Episcopacy of John Hooper" Ben Lowe, Florida Atlantic University "Boswell's Military Career: James Boswell's Hope of a Commission in the Foot Guards and the Role of Patronage Networks in the Georgian Army, 1759-1763" James Caudle, Yale University "Patronage, Politics, and the Man of Letters: Coleridge's Paternalism and Social Alignment, 1792-1832" Pamela Edwards, Ouachita Baptist University "County Politics and Ideology: Wordsworth, DeQuincy, and Westmoreland Loyalism" William Anthony Hay, Foreign Policy Research Institute "Carrying on a Trade or Business on Her Own Account: Observations on Women-Owned and Operated Businesses in Late Nineteenth-Century England" V. Markham Lester, Birmingham-Southern College "To Grandfather's House We Go: The Domesticating of the Public Man in Victorian Periodicals" Claudia Nelson, Southwest Texas State University "India as a Provider of Economic Opportunity to Middle-Class British Women" Nupur Chaudhuri, Texas Southern University "Quaker Misssionaries, Protestant Nuns, and Closet Catholics: The Religious Lives of Single Women in Early Modern England" Amy Froide, Clark University "`How Unlike a Son He Hath Dealt With Me': Catholic Widows, Protestant Heirs, and Disrupted Inheritances in Early Modern England" Colleen Seguin, Valparaiso University "Female Testators and Puritan Influence: London, 1580-1620" Claire Schein, Wake Forest University "Medieval Misogyny in the Nineteenth Century" Brenda Ayers, Middle Georgia College "Elizabeth Siddal's Medieval Women" Andre L. DeCuir, Muskingum College "The Victorian Hunt for Faith: Mazing in the Mists of Medievalism" Jo Davis, Williams Baptist College "The Sacred and the Profane: Depictions of Religious Themes in Early British Silent Films" Richard Schellhammer, University of West Alabama "Persuasion or Propaganda? Thinking about the Press in Interwar Britain" Mark Hampton, Wesleyan College "In Search of England's Dada" Mark Pohlad, DePaul University "The Art of Argument: Quarrelling and the Negotiation of Authority in Early Modern England" Linda Pollock, Tulane University "The Sword and the Shirt: Secular and Religious Symbolism in the Reconciliation of Feud" Jenny Wormald, St. Hilda's College, Oxford University "Insult by Furniture: The Material Culture of Feud in Post-Reformation Scotland" Margo Todd, Vanderbilt University "`I Hold No Brief for That Day': Lucas Malet and Charles Kingsley" Talia Schaffer, Queens College, CUNY "Edith Ayrton Zangwill: Finding the New Woman in the Daughter and Wife" Meri-Jane Rochelson, Florida International University "Becoming `Mrs. John Lane' of the Bodley Head: The Business of Domesticity in a New Century" Margaret D. Stetz, Georgetown University "Satan's Legions in the English Civil War: The East Anglian Witches and Their Military Imps, 1645-47" Milissa Ellison-Murphree, Auburn University and the University of West Georgia "Good Manners and Bad Treasons: Scottish Jacobite Women and the British Authorities in the 1715 Rebellion" Margaret Sankey, Auburn University "Some Very Unlady-like Behavior: Gender and Heroism in the British Army" Melvin C. Smith, Western Carolina University "John Hampden and the English Revolution" Marc Schwarz, University of New Hampshire "Puritan Soldiers and the Indemnity Committee, 1647-55" John A. Shedd, SUNY at Cortland "The Jacobite Interpretation of Defeat" Daniel Szechi, Auburn University "The Etiquette of Consuming Liquid Pleasure: Pub Decorum" Susan Kling, University of California at Los Angeles "Temples of Art in Cities of Industry" Amy Woodson-Boulton, University of California at Los Angeles "The Strand Magazine and the Late Victorian Sensibility" Gabriel K. Wolfenstein, University of California at Los Angeles "Divorce Reform in England: The Royal Commissions of 1909 and 1951" Ann Sumner Holmes, Louisiana State University "Red Army Boots: Gender Representations in Michael Powell's Wartime Films" Anne Morey, Middlebury College "Beauty in Danger: Narratives of Femininity During the London Blitz" Amy Bell, Queen's University "`It is Nothing, It is Only a Kick': Society's Role in Executions of Seventeenth-Century England" M. Rebecca Livingstone, Tulane University "Women's Political Speech and Elizabethan and Jacobean England: The Role of Gossip and Rumor" Margaret Keenan, William Carey College "Lying and Power: Sedition Understood as a Speech Act During the Reign of Charles I" Michael Redman, Tulane University '`A Way to Get Wealthy': Female Publishers and the Medical Marketplace in England's Augustan Age" Elizabeth Lane Furdell, University of North Florida "The Importance of Hardship in English Popular Protest, 1780-1830" Robin Ganev, York University "Gendered Discourses in Working-Class Fiction: Ada and Miranda" Juliette Berning Schaefer, Madonna University "Joanna Baillie's `Lines to a Teapot': Pointing Out the Cracks in Keats's Urn" Melissa Johnson, University of South Carolina "Celebrating the Imperial Hearth: Bessie Sinclair Fenton's Journal of Mrs. Fenton" Denise Comer, Duke University "'`The Long-Lost was Really Here': The Function of India in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford" Staci Stone, Murray State University