About Me

I am a first-year Master’s student in History, specializing in early modern England. My research examines the religious, familial, and cultural dynamics of the Tudor and Stuart periods, with a particular focus on interreligious marriages between Catholics and Protestants. I am especially interested in how Catholic women who married Protestant men navigated questions of faith, motherhood, and identity during a period marked by religious conflict and transformation.

More broadly, I am interested in the lives of early modern women and the evolving historiography surrounding them. I am particularly drawn to the figure of Mary I of England and the complex ways she has been represented—both in historical scholarship and in popular media.

In addition to my early modern research, I am also interested in nineteenth-century English Catholic women—particularly those involved in the suffrage movement who converted to Catholicism independently of the Oxford Movement. This strand of my work considers how these women negotiated religious and political identities at a time when both were heavily contested, and how their contributions have been remembered (or overlooked) in both religious and feminist histories.

This blog serves as a space to share reflections on my research and my historical interests.