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The house that now houses the Walpole Library, in Farmington, Connecticut, dates to the 1780s.

The Lewis Walpole Library recently announced its 2009-2010 Fellowship and Travel Grant Recipients. The Library awarded six Post-doctoral Fellows, five Pre-doctoral Fellows, and one Travel Grant. The deadline for applications typically falls in January. For additional information see the Library’s website. (The photo at the right comes from a blog on historic buildings of Connecticut).

This year’s Fellows:

Post-doctoral Fellows

•  Timothy P. Campbell (University of Chicago)
Historical Fashion: Commercial Temporality and Modern Historicism in Britain, 1745-1819

•  Nancy W. Collins (Columbia University)
W.S. Lewis and the Anglo-American Relationship: A Study in the Rise of European Studies in Postwar America

•  Jonathan Gross (DePaul University)
Anne Damer’s “Belmour”

•  R. A. Houston (University of St. Andrews)
Relationships between Landlords and Tenants on Estates in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, 1600-1850

•  Matthew M. Reeve (Queen’s University, Ontario)
Walpole’s Two Gothic Narratives: “The Castle of Otranto” and Strawberry Hill

•  Fiona Ritchie (McGill University)
Women’s Responses to Shakespeare in the Eighteenth-Century Theatre: The Cases of Frances and Charlotte Hanbury Williams

Pre-doctoral Fellows

•  Gail Aw (University of Virginia)
Empire and Empiricism: Enlarging Mental Space in the Long Eighteenth Century

•  Emrys Daniel Jones (Peterhouse, University of Cambridge)
Friendship and Politics in Sir Robert Walpole’s England

•  Amanda Lahikainen (Brown University)
Anglicizing the French Revolution: The Politics of Humor in Late Eighteenth-Century English Political Graphic Satire

•  Colleen M. Terry (University of Delaware)
Presence in Print: William Hogarth in British North America

•  Jonathan Alexander Yarker (Trinity College, University of Cambridge)
Copies and Copying: Attitudes towards Reproduction in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Travel Grant

•  Lisa L. Moore (University of Texas at Austin)
Sister Arts: Lesbian Genres and Eighteenth-Century Landscapes

Fellow Deferred from 2007-2008

•  Mark Phillips (Carleton University, Ottawa)
Then and Now: Historical Distance and Visualization, 1740-1850