Professor Jennie Batchelor

About

Jennie Batchelor is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Kent.

She works and publishes on the long eighteenth century focusing primarily on women’s writing, periodicals, representations of gender, work, sexuality and the body, material culture studies and the charity movement. Her most recent book is The Lady’s Magazine (1770-1832) and the Making of Literary History was published in 2022 by Edinburgh University Press and is available on open access here. This book builds on research initially undertaken for her Leverhulme project ‘The Lady’s Magazine (1770-1818): Understanding the Emergence of a Genre‘ (2016), and for which subsequently awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. Jennie has also co-authored a popular blog about the magazine, its content, history and numerous, largely unknown, authors. Other recent books in this area include her co-edited collection (with Nush Powell), Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690s-1820s (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), which is the first major study of women’s active engagement with periodical and magazine culture in the long eighteenth century.