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TRENTU.CA / History / Faculty & Research / Jennine Hurl-Eamon

Jennine Hurl-Eamon

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Professor
B.A. (Western); M.A. (Queen's); Ph.D. (York).
705-748-1011 x 7197
jenninehurleamon@trentu.ca

Research interests: 

Early modern Europe, especially England, with a focus upon gender, childhood and the military; crime and criminal justice; plebeian marriage and family life.

 

Current research project:

a monograph on soldiers’ interactions with children in the long eighteenth century

Books:     

  • (ed.)Women, Families, and the British Army, 1700-1880, Volume I:  From Marlborough’s reforms to the outbreak of war with Revolutionary France.  London:  Routledge, 2020. 
  • (ed.)Women, Families, and the British Army, 1700-1880, Volume II:  In the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic War Era.  London:  Routledge, 2020. 
  • (ed.)Women, Families, and the British Army, 1700-1880, Volume III:  In their own accounts of service in the Napoleonic Wars Era. London:  Routledge, 2020. 
  • Marriage and the British Army in the Long Eighteenth Century: The Girl I Left Behind Me.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2014.  Oxford Scholarship Online.  Oxford University Press.  1 May 2014
  • Women’s Roles in Eighteenth-Century Europe.  Santa Barbara: Greenwood ABC-Clio, 2010.
  • Gender and Petty Violence in London, 1680-1720.  Columbus:  Ohio State University Press, 2005.

Articles in International, Refereed Journals:

  • “Girls Playing at Soldiers:  Destabilizing the Masculinity of War Play in Georgian Britain,” Jeunesse:  Young People, Texts, Cultures 12, no. 1 (July, 2020), 39-62. 
  • “Maternal Martyrdom Unmasked:  British Fatherhood and the Masculinization of War in Napoleonic Veterans’ Tales of Infant Suffering,” Journal of Family History 45, no. 2 (April 2020):  172-190. 
  •  “Elizabeth Digby Pilot:  Memoir of an Eighteenth-Century Officer’s Wife During his Service in North America, Part I,” Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 96, no. 386 (2018):  110-30; and "Part II," no. 387 (2018):  213-30, co-authored with Michelle Arentsen. 
  • “Habits of Seduction:  Accounts of Portuguese Nuns in British Officers’ Peninsular War Memoirs,” Historical Journal 58, no. 3 (September, 2015):  733-756.
  • “Youth in the Devil’s Service; Manhood in the King’s:  Reaching Adulthood in the eighteenth-century British Army,” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 8, no. 2 (Spring 2015), 163-190.
  • “Did soldiers really enlist to desert their wives?  Revisiting the martial character of marital desertion in eighteenth-century London,” Journal of British Studies 53 (April, 2014):  356-77.
  • “Love Tokens:  Objects as Memory for Plebeian Women in Early Modern England,” in the Forum on Early Modern Women and Memory, Early Modern Women:  An Interdisciplinary Journal 6 (2011):  181-186.
  • “The Fiction of Female Dependence and the Makeshift Economy of Soldiers, Sailors, and their Wives in Eighteenth-Century London,” Labor History 49 (November 2008):  481-501.
  • “Insights into Plebeian Marriage:  Soldiers, Sailors, and their Wives in the Old Bailey Proceedings,” London Journal 30, no. 1 (2005):  22-38
  • “The Westminster Impostors:  Impersonating Law Enforcement in Early Eighteenth-Century London,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 38 (2005):  461-483.
  • “Policing Male Heterosexuality:  The Reformation of Manners’ Campaign Against the Brothels in Westminster, 1680-1720,” Journal of Social History 37 (Summer 2004):  1017-1035.
  • “Domestic Violence Prosecuted:  Women Binding Over their Husbands for Assault at Westminster Quarter Sessions, 1685-1720” Journal of Family History 26, no. 4 (October, 2001):  435-454.
  • “’She being bigg with child is likely to miscarry’:  Pregnant Women Prosecuting Assault in London, 1685-1720,” London Journal 24, no. 2 (December 1999):  18-33.

Book Chapters:

  • “’The lowest and most abandoned trull of a soldier’: The Crime of Bastardy in Early Eighteenth-Century London,” in Women, Transgression and Discipline in Early Modern Britain:  Social and Literary Explorations, ed. Richard Hillman and Pauline Blanc, (London:  Ashgate, 2014), 163-90.
  •  “’I will forgive you if the world will’:  Wife-Murder and limits on Patriarchal Violence in London, 1690-1750,” in Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England, ed. Joseph Patrick Ward (New York:  Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 223-248.
  • With Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, “’Spiralling out of Control?’ Female Violence in Eighteenth-Century London and New Mexico,” in Assaulting the Past:  Violence and Civilization in Historical Context, ed. Katherine D. Watson (Cambridge:  Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), 179-202.

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