Erin Maglaque & Hannah Dawson: Presence
Podcast: London Review Bookshop PodcastPublished On: Mon Aug 24 2026
Description: Erin Maglaque’s first book, Presence, explores the hidden history of the female body through deep archival research: fragments in medical texts, trial transcripts, legal treatises, prayerbooks, letters, and diaries come together to make tangible a vanished past, unfamiliar because of its deliberate suppression. The artist Celia Paul has described Presence as ‘a landmark book’, which makes the female body in the past ‘real as never before’. Maglaque was in conversation with Hannah Dawson, a historian of political thought at King’s College London and the editor of The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing. You can buy a copy of Presence from the London Review Bookshop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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