Resources

Resources

Our Peer-Reviewed Publications

Wills, Kacie and Erica Hayes, “Research Interrupted: A Reflection on Digitizing Sarah Sophia Banks’s Collections and Access to Ephemeral Materials,”Romanticism on the Net, issue 74-75 (Spring-Fall 2020). ronjournal.org/s/6420

Hayes, Erica and Kacie Wills, “Visualizing Sarah Sophia Banks’ African Coins,” Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement & Humanities (IDEAH), vol. 1, issue, 1 (2020). https://doi.org/10.21428/f1f23564.1d32a4b3

Hayes, Erica and Kacie Wills, “Sarah Sophia Banks’s Coin Collection: Female Networks of Exchange,”Women and the Art and Science of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Europe, edited by Arlene Leis and Kacie Wills, Routledge, 2020, pp. 78-92. https://www.routledge.com/Women-and-the-Art-and-Science-of-Collecting-in-Eighteenth-Century-Europe/Leis-Wills/p/book/9780367856663

Blogs

Wills, Kacie, "The Monster and Sarah Sophia Banks's Ephemera Collection: Sexual Violence in Print Media,"The Keats-Shelley Association of America Uncovering the Archives Blog. https://k-saa.org/uncovering-the-archive-the-monster-and-sarah-sophia-bankss-ephemera-collection-sexual-violence-and-print-media/​

Wills, Kacie, “Sarah Sophia Banks’s Ballooning Scrapbook and the Science of Popular Spectacle,”The British Library Untold Lives Blog. https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2018/06/sarah-sophia-bankss-ballooning-scrapbook-and-the-science-of-popular-spectacle.html

Further Reading

Eagleton, Catherine, "Collecting African Money in Georgian London: Sarah Sophia Banks and Her Collection of Coins,” Museum History Journal, vol. 6, no.1 (2013): 23-38. https://doi.org/10.1179/1936981612Z.0000000002

Fara, Patricia, Pandora’s Breeches: Women, Science and Power in the Enlightenment, Pimlico, 2004.

Leis, Arlene, "Displaying Art and Fashion: Ladies’ Pocket-Book Imagery in the Paper Collections of Sarah Sophia Banks,” Journal of Art History, vol. 82, no. 3 (2013): 252-271.

Leis, Arlene, "Ephemeral Histories: Social Commemoration of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in the Paper Collections of Sarah Sophia Banks,” Visual Culture and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, edited by Satish Padiyar, Philip Shaw, and Philippa Simpson, Routledge, 2017, pp. 183-199.

Leis, Arlene, “Sarah Sophia Banks: Collecting Ephemera in Late Georgian England,” John Johnson Collection’s Ephemera Resource Blog. http://ephemeraresources.blogspot.com/

Pincott, Anthony, “The Book Tickets of Miss Sarah Sophia Banks (1744-1818),” Bookplate Journal, vol. 2, no. 1 (2004): 3-30.

Russell, Gillian, The Ephemeral Eighteenth Century: Print, Sociability, and the Cultures of Collecting, Cambridge UP, 2020.

Russell, Gillian, "Sarah Sophia Banks's Private Theatricals: Ephemera, Sociability, and the Archiving of Fashionable Life,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 27, no. 3-4 (2015): 535-55.

Sir Joseph Banks Society, https://www.joseph-banks.org.uk/about-us/