TEACHING EDITION

Guided Museum Tours:

Curated content for Teaching Periodicals, Book History, Journalism History, Gender Studies, the Eighteenth Century, Life Writing, and More.

Suggested Curriculum

Our suggested curriculum allows for one- to four-day curriculum options and is conveniently accompanied by a course reader containing all readings, excerpted by Karenza Sutton-Bennett and Susan Carlile and annotated by Karenza. Karenza and Susan created this curriculum to offer teachers a starting point for introducing The Lady’s Museum to undergraduate students from a framework of British imperialism and women’s education.

Please note that the education-related articles are annotated and ready to assign, but the imperialism-related articles’ annotations are forthcoming. For now, teachers can assign the yet-to-be-annotated articles currently posted to this website. An article showing teachers how and why to teach these series, co-authored by Karenza and Susan, is forthcoming.

For further historical and scholarly context into the Lady’s Museum—and insight on the value of teaching it—see Susan Carlile and Karenza Sutton-Bennett’s 2022 Aphra Behn Online (ABO) article: “Teaching the Lady’s Museum and Sophia: Imperialism, Early Feminism, and Beyond.” The article will provide you the necessary background information to prepare for teaching these sections.

For information on the benefits of teaching with this curriculum (and to share with your students to infuse meaning behind the work), see our Student Testimonials page.

Ideas and Resources

  • Suggested assignments: Supplement your teaching of Lennox, The Lady’s Museum and eighteenth-century periodicals with these co-editor curated assignments and class activities.
  • Suggested readings: Our site bibliography suggests articles, chapters, and books as background readings for your course.
  • Guest lectures: Co-Editors Kelly Plante and Karenza Sutton-Bennett can guest-lecture in your classroom to introduce your students to the website, to eighteenth-century periodicals, Charlotte Lennox, and The Lady’s Museum. We are looking for beta-testers who are interested in teaching and learning with The Lady’s Museum. As this is a community-based website, we are eager for students to gain hands-on experience using the website and participating in our glossing activity. If you are interested, please contact us. We would be happy to discuss your pedagogical needs.
  • Video lectures and slides to use to teach the Lady’s Museum, Charlotte Lennox and/or eighteenth-century periodicals. Created and shared by Lady’s Museum Project editors and contributors

Read Communally

  • Read, annotate, highlight, and discuss with us in our group on Hypothes.is! Use the hashtag #ladysmuseumproj or #ladysmuseumF22 on Twitter to discuss readings.
  • Alternatively, download PDFs of the articles you’d like to assign and upload them to Perusall and/or your course’s learning management system.
  • Advise your students to save website pages to Pocket; on the Pocket smartphone app, students can then have articles read aloud to them! It’s a great way to experience the text and increase learning comprehension.

Record a Part of the Lady’s Museum Audiobook

Have students listen to the audiobook [volume 1 of the Museum is available now on Archive.org!] and read along with the applicable Lady’s Museum text. You can do so using this handy chart that links to the full text of the article and the audio version. Ask students to write a reflection about the experience with reading assigned content two to three ways: via the PDF, via the web-version of text, and via the audiobook. How does listening to the magazine articles online change your experience with the content?