The Life and Work of Jane Webb Loudon - Women & Science in the Nineteenth-Century: Science Fiction and Science Education

The Life and Work of Jane Webb Loudon

Women & Science in the Nineteenth-Century: Science Fiction and Science Education

Leeds Trinity University College 27th-28th June 2011

Call for Papers

Jane Webb Loudon (1807-1858) is a neglected figure of interest to a range of research areas including women’s professional writing, the promotion of science and women’s education and speculative fiction. She is best known for The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century (1827) and Gardening for Ladies (1840). The conference intends to explore the life, work and example of Jane Webb Loudon in the context of women and science in the nineteenth century. It therefore seeks papers from various disciplinary perspectives on fictional and non-fictional contributions by women to the formation of popular scientific awareness during the nineteenth century.

We welcome proposals for contributions on the following topics:

Women’s Science Fiction
Victorian Science Fiction
Women & Scientific Research
Popular Science
Jane Webb Loudon’s Circle
Women’s Magazines
Visualising Social Change
Botany and Horticulture
Children’s Education
Women’s positions and voices within late Victorian science fiction 1850-1910
Nineteenth-century speculative writing Science & Social Reform
Scientific Writing & the Periodical Press
Class & Entry to the Professions
Women’s Education and Science in Popular Fiction
Women’s Gardening
Vivisection Represented in Women’s Writing
Gender debates in Science Fiction

Keynote speakers, Matthew Beaumont, Alan Rauch, Andy Sawyer, Ann B. Shteir