About me
I am a lecturer in History at St. Thomas University and the University of New Brunswick, both in Fredericton, N.B., Canada. I teach courses in medieval and early-modern European social history, with a special emphasis on gender, leisure, and intellectual history.
I am a lecturer in History at St. Thomas University and the University of New Brunswick, both in Fredericton, N.B., Canada. I teach courses in medieval and early-modern European social history, with a special emphasis on gender, leisure, and intellectual history.
Publications
Mullin, Janet E. A Sixpence at Whist: Gaming and the English Middle Classes, 1680-1830. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, autumn 2015. ISBN-13: 978 1 78327 047 7
Mullin, Janet E. “Cards on the Table: The middling sort as suppliers and consumers of English leisure culture in the eighteenth century” Canadian Journal of History 45:1 (Spring/Summer 2010), 49-81.
Mullin, Janet E. “ ‘We Had Carding’: Hospitable card play and polite domestic sociability among the middling sort in eighteenth-century England” Journal of Social History 42:4 (Summer 2009), 989-1008.
Conference presentations
"'After coffee and tea we all got to cards': Card play and middling sociability in eighteenth-century England" (Reading Early Modern Studies Conference, July 2015, Reading, UK)
"'I assure you, my dear Father': Gaming and miscreant middling sons in eighteenth-century England" (Social History Society Conference, April 2014, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK)
"Normalising risk: Gaming and the middle classes of eighteenth-century England" (Economic History Society Conference, April 2013, York, UK)
"Rejection of reason? The Enlightenment, the middling sort, and gaming in eighteenth-century England" (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, March 2011, Vancouver, BC)
"'We had singing all the night long': Musical clubs, homosociability, and the rising middle classes, 1700-1820" (University of Exeter Conference, Engendering Gender: Production, Transmission and Change, 1450-1950, July 2010, Exeter, UK)
"'Nor would I ever play ...': Forced play at cards in England's eighteenth century" (Western Conference on British Studies, November 2007, Albuquerque, NM)
"Playing it well: Edmond Hoyle, the middling sort, and the formalisation of card play in eighteenth-century England" (Midwest Conference on British Studies, September 2007, Dayton, OH)
"The Lady Stak'd: Women in eighteenth-century gaming satire" (Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference, October 2005, Fredericton, NB)
Doctoral dissertation
Mullin, Janet E. “Private Passion, Public Order: Gaming, Gender, and the Middle Classes in Eighteenth-Century England”. Unpublished University of New Brunswick PhD dissertation, 2008.
Mullin, Janet E. A Sixpence at Whist: Gaming and the English Middle Classes, 1680-1830. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, autumn 2015. ISBN-13: 978 1 78327 047 7
Mullin, Janet E. “Cards on the Table: The middling sort as suppliers and consumers of English leisure culture in the eighteenth century” Canadian Journal of History 45:1 (Spring/Summer 2010), 49-81.
Mullin, Janet E. “ ‘We Had Carding’: Hospitable card play and polite domestic sociability among the middling sort in eighteenth-century England” Journal of Social History 42:4 (Summer 2009), 989-1008.
Conference presentations
"'After coffee and tea we all got to cards': Card play and middling sociability in eighteenth-century England" (Reading Early Modern Studies Conference, July 2015, Reading, UK)
"'I assure you, my dear Father': Gaming and miscreant middling sons in eighteenth-century England" (Social History Society Conference, April 2014, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK)
"Normalising risk: Gaming and the middle classes of eighteenth-century England" (Economic History Society Conference, April 2013, York, UK)
"Rejection of reason? The Enlightenment, the middling sort, and gaming in eighteenth-century England" (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, March 2011, Vancouver, BC)
"'We had singing all the night long': Musical clubs, homosociability, and the rising middle classes, 1700-1820" (University of Exeter Conference, Engendering Gender: Production, Transmission and Change, 1450-1950, July 2010, Exeter, UK)
"'Nor would I ever play ...': Forced play at cards in England's eighteenth century" (Western Conference on British Studies, November 2007, Albuquerque, NM)
"Playing it well: Edmond Hoyle, the middling sort, and the formalisation of card play in eighteenth-century England" (Midwest Conference on British Studies, September 2007, Dayton, OH)
"The Lady Stak'd: Women in eighteenth-century gaming satire" (Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference, October 2005, Fredericton, NB)
Doctoral dissertation
Mullin, Janet E. “Private Passion, Public Order: Gaming, Gender, and the Middle Classes in Eighteenth-Century England”. Unpublished University of New Brunswick PhD dissertation, 2008.
