ANN ARBOR—The diaries, letters, and account books of more than 100 women from commercial, professional, and gentry families of the 18th century provide the grist for Amanda Vickery’s presentation “So Much for Linen, Now as to Politics: The Secrets of Women’s Sources in Eighteenth-Century England” at the University of Michigan’s Clements Library Nov. 9 at 4 p.m. A reception will follow.

Sponsored by the Clements Library, U-M’s Department of History and the U-M Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the award-winning author of “The Gentleman’s Daughter” will disclose the intimate details of the daily lives of these 18th century women from their beds and boudoirs to the shops and assembly rooms of their work places.

Vickery is a reader in the History of Women at Royal Holloway College in London and co-director of the Bedford Centre for the History of Women. Her presentation at the Clements is free and open to the public.

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