Linda L. Sturtz

Linda L. Sturtz is Corlis Professor and chair of the history department at Beloit College where she teaches early American history and women's history. She is currently researching women and gender in pre-emancipation Jamaica. Her first book, "Within Her Power": Propertied Women in Colonial Virginia (2002), discusses women's economic activities in both local and trans-Atlantic settings while considering the legal actions propertied women took to protect the interests of themselves and their families.

Lecture topics:

• "None so Fine as the Garnet Ladies": African-Jamaican Women's Festive Culture in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
• The Life and Letters of Mary Rose, an Eighteenth-Century "White" African Jamaican?
• "The Ghost Family": Women, Law, and Family Property in Colonial Virginia
• "Cash I Make Use of; Cloth I Have Wove": Weaving Colonial Virginia Women's Economic History

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