‘Unfinished Conversations: Still Kissing the Rod #3’ — hosted at Merton College, Oxford, on 30 January 2024 — was occasioned by the recent publication of two landmark works: The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English, 1540-1700, edited by by Danielle Clarke, Sarah C. E. Ross and Elizabeth Scott-Bauman (2022), and the online Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English, edited by Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith (2023). CEMS Director Rosalind Smith joined Sarah Ross (Victoria University of Wellington), Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (KCL), Danielle Clarke (UCD), Ros Ballaster (Oxford), Virginia Cox (Cambridge) and Diane Purkiss (Oxford) to discuss the state of studies in early modern women’s writing.

Read Camille Gontarek’s report on ‘Unfinished Conversations: Skill Kissing the Rod #3’ here.