14th Annual British Women Writers Conference 23 - 26 March 2006. Gainesville, Florida

Carolyn Steedman is Professor of History at the University of Warwick. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including Landscape for a Good Woman (1986) and Dust (2002). She currently holds a UK Economic and Social Research Council Research Professorship for work on domestic service in the eighteenth century.

Steedman's keynote address, entitled "Story-Tellers of the Western World: Nelly Dean as Historian of Wuthering Heights," will explore the relationship of the English novel to English social history by examining how Nelly Dean and Emily Brontë, as author of Wuthering Heights, function as historians.