<p> PICTURING WOMEN’S HEALTH 1750-1910 22 January, 2011 University of Warwick, Coventry, UK</p><p>Draft Programme (please note: this is not the final programme & details may change) Organized by Fran Scott, Ji Won Chung & Kate Scarth</p><p>Programme Overview</p><p>9:00 - 9:25 Registration, Tea/Coffee 9:25 - Welcome and Plenary Speaker 1: Dr. Claire Brock 10:30 10:30 - Break 1 (short break) 10:45 10:45 - Session 1 11:45 11:45 - Break 2 (short break) 12:00 12:00 - 1:30 Session 2 (3 papers) 1:30 - 2:30 Lunch 2:30 - 4:00 Session 3 (3 papers) 4:00 - 4:30 Break 3 4:30 - 5:30 Session 4 5:30 - 5:45 Break 4 (short break) 5:45 - 6:45 Plenary Speaker 2: Prof. Hilary Marland 6:45 - 7:30 Wine Picturing Women’s Health 1750-1910 Full Programme </p><p>Registration, Tea & Coffee – 9.00-9.25 – Humanities Foyer </p><p>Welcome and Plenary Speaker 1: Dr. Claire Brock</p><p>9.25-10.30, Rm TBA</p><p>Chair: Professor Jackie Labbe (University of Warwick)</p><p>Break 1 - 10.30-10.45 – Place TBA</p><p>Parallel Session 1: 10.45-11.45 </p><p>Anorexia Rm TBA </p><p>Chair: TBA </p><p>Victoria Fairclough (University of St. Andrew’s) The Invention of Anorexia and the Medicalisation of Female Self-Starvation </p><p>Lisa Coar (University of Leicester) Waisted Women: The Cult of Anorexia in Victorian Literature</p><p>Fashion, Exercise, & Leisure Rm TBA</p><p>Chair: TBA</p><p>Rebecca Sundharem (University of Reading) Active Bodies, Independent Minds: Representations of Women’s Physical Activity and Emancipation in New Woman Literature</p><p>Clare Mendes (University of Leicester) Signals of Female Health: The Late Victorian Woman’s Press</p><p>Rachael M. Johnson (University of Leeds) Medical Cure and the Fashionable Sufferer: Women’s Health and England’s Leisure Resorts of the Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Centuries </p><p>Break 2 – 11.45-12.00 – Place TBA </p><p>Parallel Session 2: 12.00-1.30 </p><p>Work and Labour Rm TBA Chair: Joe Morrissey (Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies, Warwick) </p><p>Kristin Gifford (University of Manchester) Jane’s Headaches and Fanny’s Exhaustion: Work and Health in Jane Austen’s Women </p><p>Tabitha Sparks (McGill University) ‘This is Woman’s Work:’ Kate Marsden’s Leper Project and the Sacrificial Healer</p><p>Armida M. Azada (University of Roehampton) Mary Brunton’s Self Control: Health, Wealth and Financial Wisdom</p><p>Individual Agency Rm TBA</p><p>Chair: TBA </p><p>Ruth Ashton (University of Leicester) See No Evil, Hear No Evil: Blindness and Deafness in Womanhood in Wilkie Collins’ Hide and Seek and Poor Miss Finch</p><p>Rachel Ben-Itzhak (Independent Scholar) Keats and the ‘Masturbating Girl’ in Isabella; or the Pot of Basil</p><p>Valeria Angela Cavalli (Trinity College Dublin) The Demon in the House: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s The Rose and the Key (1871)</p><p>Lunch – 1.30-2.30 – Place TBA </p><p>Parallel Session 3: 2.30-4.00 pm</p><p>Influence of Medical Knowledge Rm TBA</p><p>Chair: Charlotte Mathieson (Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies, Warwick)</p><p>Alexandra Lewis (University of Warwick) Picture This: Bodily Sign, Literary Diagnosis </p><p>Cheryl Blake Price (Florida State University) Immunization, Child Abuse, and Female Disfigurement in Bleak House </p><p>Debrenee Adkisson (Southeast Community College) ‘A Rather Bitter Medicine’: The Rest Cure as a Form of Women’s Oppression</p><p>Imprisoned Insanity Rm TBA</p><p>Chair: TBA Katherine Ford (Independent Scholar) Constructs of Female Insanity at the Fin de Siècle </p><p>Anastasia Chamberlen (King’s College London) The Punishment of ‘Unhealthy’ Bodies: England’s First Women’s Prisons</p><p>Maria Dorn (University of Hanburg) Women with a Past in the Victorian Novel</p><p>Break 3 – 4.00-4.30 – Place TBA </p><p>Parallel Session 4: 4.30-5.30 </p><p>Beauty and Health Rm TBA</p><p>Chair: TBA </p><p>Carina Hart (University of East Anglia) ‘White with Rosy Cheeks’: Fruit as a Metaphor for Health and Beauty in Goblin Market </p><p>Andy McInnes (University of Exeter) Amazonian Fashions: Lady Delacour’s (Re)Dress in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda </p><p>Declining Health and Biography Rm TBA</p><p>Chair: </p><p>Chrisy Dennis (University College Falmouth) ‘Perdita upon her last legs’: Mary Robinson in Sickness and in Health</p><p>Ruth Bromiley (University of Leicester) The Madness of Olive Schreiner</p><p>Break 4 – 5.30-5.45 – Place TBA </p><p>Plenary Speaker 2: Professor Hilary Marland </p><p>5.45-6.45, Rm TBA</p><p>Chair: TBA </p><p>Wine Reception, Rm TBA</p><p>6.45-7.30</p><p>Conference Meal, TBA (On-campus) 8.00</p>