Show-and-tell at the Heritage Library Hendrik Conscience

Conference "Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade"

Curator Steven Van Impe shows strategies for tracing ‘hidden’ women in the rich collections of the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library.

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Finding women in early modern books is no easy task. Curator Steven Van Impe draws some examples from the rich collections of the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library to show strategies for tracing ‘hidden’ women as authors, printers, subjects, owners and readers of books. This event is exclusively for participants of the conference ‘Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade’, Antwerp, 5–7 November 2025.

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