'Women in the writings of Jonathan Swift'

Lunchtime Lecture on 'Women in the writings of Jonathan Swift'. Dr Aileen Douglas gives the third and final lecture in our series on Jonathan Swift which accompanied the Library exhibition "To please and to reform mankind" a life of protest: Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745.

Aileen Douglas is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and Head of the School of English. Her teaching and research interests focus on eighteenth-century writing. Among her publications are several articles on Jonathan Swift and a co-edited collection, Locating Swift: papers from Dublin on the 250th anniversary of the death of Jonathan Swift (Dublin: Four Courts Press). Her most recent book is Work in Hand: Script, Print, and Writing, 1690-1840 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017). In June 2017 she co-organized the Swift350 conference at TCD to mark the 350th anniversary of the birth of Jonathan Swift.

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