Seeing women in the early English and Dutch East India Companies

Williams, Mark R. F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3990-0669 2025. Seeing women in the early English and Dutch East India Companies. Historical Research , htaf009. 10.1093/hisres/htaf009 Item availability restricted.

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Abstract

This article focuses on women’s presence (and absence) in the archives and histories of the English and Dutch East India Companies in the early modern period. By assessing how women have been seen in and across surviving archival forms – institutional records, legal documents, personal accounts – I reveal how women have been obscured within or marginalized from such ‘Company histories’. Two first-hand accounts written by women in the period – Johanna Maria van Riebeeck and Judith Weston – are analysed in depth. Grounded in the study of early modern life writing and mobility, my analysis foregrounds the preoccupations and experiences of these women as they moved across company spaces.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Schools > History, Archaeology and Religion
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0950-3471
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	24 February 2025
Date of Acceptance:	18 February 2025
Last Modified:	12 May 2025 11:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/176297

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