In the latest installment of Coffee House Perspectives, the official podcast of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Dr Alex Hobday talks to Dr Alexis Wolf about her new Monograph, Transnational Women Writers in the Wilmot Coterie, 1798-1840.

The Irish writers and editors Katherine (1773-1824) and Martha Wilmot (1775-1873) left a unique record of middle-ranking women’s literary practices and experiences of travel in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.

Across their travels, the sisters met, engaged with, and learned from numerous key women of the time, including Princess Ekaterina Dashkova, Margaret King, Lady Mount Cashell and Helen Maria Williams.

Now, the Wilmot sisters are the subject of a new monograph by Dr Alexis Wolf, which examines their manuscripts and published works and explores their participation in a startling range of self-educating activities, including travel writing, biography, antiquarianism, early ethnographic observation, language acquisition, translation practices and editorial work.

In this episode of Coffee House Perspectives, Dr Wolf speaks to Dr Alex Hobday about their remarkable lives and the startling array of works they produced.

This episode of Coffee House Perspectives was edited by Charlotte Crawshaw (Northumbria University) and produced by Dr Adam James Smith (York St John University) in association with the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Listen to the episode here!