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Susannah Lyon-Whaley

@susannah-lw.bsky.social

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at University of York on 17th-century queens and global nature, cross-cultural material exchange | PhD, Art History, on Catherine of Braganza | Honorary Fellow, Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland

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Susannah Lyon-Whaley@susannah-lw.bsky.social · last mo.

What a fitting (almost) end to two years in York! Taking the Student Salon cabinet that @laurenworking.bsky.social and I created with amazing students through @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social on an outing to the Merchant Adventurers Hall was the icing on the cake 🍫🍰

Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York@uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · last mo.

Sensing the 17th Century: Smelling Vanilla and Listening to Chocolate: a blog post about @susannah-lw.bsky.social and @laurenworking.bsky.social's #StudentSalon cabinet outing with @willtullett.bsky.social in the atmospheric @merchantshallyork.org at @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social buff.ly/FMMVRqN

Sarah Bendall@sarahabendall.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Truly honoured to receive these endorsements for my forthcoming book from historians who I so admire & whose work has inspired my research @lauragowing.bsky.social @juliehardwick.bsky.social @susannah-lw.bsky.social To read more & pre-order @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social see the links in my bio!

A beautifully written, lively, and compelling exploration of the army of female workers from stylists and budget managers to milliners, seamstresses, and laundresses who were behind the fabulous clothing of seventeenth-century queens. Julie Hardwick, the University of Texas, USA Carefully researched, deftly analysed, and a pleasure to read, Sarah's book makes a much needed and very valuable addition to work on Stuart queenship. It sheds a bright light on the previously unexplored lives of the numerous women who feature in the queens' accounts thereby revealing their skill, ingenuity and business acumen. Maria Hayward, University of Southampton, UK A wonderfully illuminating view of the women behind the Stuart throne. Dr Bendall's archival research into the tirewomen, milliners and mantua-makers who created the queenly wardrobe reveals a hidden world of female artisanal skills, fashion expertise and impressive economic competence. Laura Gowing, King's College London, UK A monumental shift in the foundations of studying royal dress. Queens and tradeswomen speak to one another, discussing silhouettes and silks, romance and revolution. The creative and labouring hands meticulously stitching, sourcing, and caring for queens' clothes are as worthy of our attention as the powerful bodies their work adorned. Susannah Lyon-Whaley, University of York, UK
Sarah Bendall@sarahabendall.bsky.social · 9mo ago

My next book, The Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens, has a cover!!! And a preorder link!! Yippee! www.bloomsbury.com/au/women-who...

Book cover shows Queen Mary II on one side and a French dressmaker holding a measuring tape taken from a print from the 1690s on the other side.
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10mo ago

'Before William Wordsworth’s imagination had wandered, lonely as a cloud, and before John Keats’s nib had quivered with notions about nightingales, a Black woman named Phillis Wheatley was circulating a treasury of nature-inspired verse in London.'

Phillis Wheatley, the first Black nature poet | The Observer

Enslaved as a child, the 18th-century writer became the first published Black woman – and a pioneer of nature poetry whose legacy still inspires

observer.co.uk

Susannah Lyon-Whaley@susannah-lw.bsky.social · last yr.

Thanks to Thin Ice Press and @georginaemw.bsky.social @wordsmith.bsky.social for an enlightening three days of material thinking! If I have learned anything it is that there is there is no end to matter and 'digressions are sunshine'!

Georgina Wilson@georginaemw.bsky.social · last yr.

Print Matters summer school hard at work at Thin Ice Press amid 3 days of book-making, reading Lucretius, depicting 'chaos', and perusing the Minster Library and Shandy Hall

Susannah Lyon-Whaley@susannah-lw.bsky.social · last yr.

What did empire and global goods have to do with literary sociability and 17th/18th-century salon culture? Watch this space for what our students find!

Lauren Working@laurenworking.bsky.social · last yr.

Our cabinet has arrived and she’s a beauty! I’ve been working with student interns & @susannah-lw.bsky.social on our #StudentSalon project and all sorts of 17th and 18th century objects are headed our way — fabrics, engravings, a Dutch tile, maybe even a bug or two…

Susannah Lyon-Whaley@susannah-lw.bsky.social · last yr.

My exhibition A Queen's Book of Flowers is now on at the Thin Ice Press in York 🌺🌻 Featuring Henrietta Maria and John Parkinson's Paradisi in Sole (1629), women and foreign plants. Today, an accompanying workshop making bookmarks!

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Susannah Lyon-Whaley@susannah-lw.bsky.social · last yr.

What a treat to meet the lovely Anna Thornton from AUP in person at RSA!

Amsterdam University Press@amsterdamupress.bsky.social · last yr.

Lovely to meet @susannah-lw.bsky.social, editor of ‘Floral Culture and the Tudor and Stuart Courts’ at #RSA2025 The book’s interdisciplinary essays engage with flowers as real, artificial & represented objects across the Tudor & Stuart courts 🌸 Read the intro for free! www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Susannah Lyon-Whaley holds her book in front of book table