Professor Julia Kuehn's Keynote Speech,
“‘A Vision for an Artist – a female artist’: Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann and the Traditions of Middle Eastern Travels and Popular Representations of the Harem”
The VPFA Study Day “Women & the East: Gendered Narratives of Encounter in Victorian Popular Writing” took place on 10th and 11th June 2022. The keynote speech was given by Julia Kuehn, VPFA co-president; a recorded version of the lecture is available to watch below.