Love, Desire and Melancholy

Angharad Eyre gained her PhD in English at Queen Mary University, London, UK in 2014. Her thesis explored how the phenomenon of the woman missionary influenced nineteenth-century ideas of femininity, womens writing and the early feminist movement. Jane Mackelworth is finishing her PhD in History at Queen Mary University, London, UK. Her topic is Writing Sapphic Love and Desire in Britain, 1900-1950. She is also a co-convenor for the IHR History of Sexuality Seminar Series. Elsa Richardson is a Lecturer on the history of health and medicine at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, and completed her PhD in 2014 at Queen Mary University, London, UK. Her first monograph, Extraordinary Powers of Perception, examines the place of supernatural and prophetic forms of visionary experience in the Victorian scientific and literary imagination.

Introduction Inspired by Constance Maynard: exploring womens sexual, emotional and religious lives through their writings Part I: Constance Maynard 1. Constance Maynards Languages of Love 2. Love, Passion, Conversion: Constance Maynard and evangelical missionary writing 3. Religion, Same-Sex Desire, and the Imagined Geographies of Empire: the case of Constance Maynard (18491935) 4. Constance Maynards Life-Writing Considered as Spiritual Autobiography 5. An Exploration of Religion and Education in the Life of Constance Maynard, Mistress of Westfield College 6. We Must Advance, We Must Expand: architectural and social challenges to the domestic model at the College for Ladies at Westfield Part II: Love, Friendship and Desire 7. Sentimental Follies or Instruments of Tremendous Uplift? reconsidering womens same-sex relationships in interwar Britain 8. Went into raptures: reading emotion in the ordinary wartime diary, 19411946 Part III: Review Essay 9. New Queer Histories: Laura Doans Disturbing Practices and the Constance Maynard Archive