Jarvis has published in the Journal of Social History, French Historical Studies, French History, Eighteenth-Century Studies, La Révolution française, and Annales historiques de la Révolution française. This study probes how the French revolutionaries refashioned forgiveness through economic, judicial, and cultural venues from 1789 to 1802. Jarvis is currently working on a book project entitled Democratizing Forgiveness: Reconciling Citizens in Revolutionary France. Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies for the best scholarly book on an eighteenth-century subject in any discipline. This book was named Finalist for the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Award for Best First Book on the History of Women, Gender, and/or Sexuality. It won the 2020 Louis A. While analyzing how the Dames des Halles and marketplace actors shaped nascent democracy and capitalism, this book challenges the interpretation that revolutionary citizenship was inherently masculine from the outset. Jarvis’s most recent book, Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender, and Citizenship in Revolutionary France (Oxford University Press, 2019) , integrates politics, economics, and gender to ask how Parisian market women invented notions of citizenship through everyday trade during the French Revolution. She teaches courses on French and European history from the sixteenth century to the present. She is especially interested in the intersection of social and cultural history, as well as gender history. Her research focuses on popular politics, broadly conceived, during the French Revolution. So I’ll take the Oxford Book of English Verse Elgar’s Salut d’Amour, which my mum used to play on the cello and a freshly squeezed lime soda.Katie Jarvis is a historian of early and late modern France. What book, song and drink would you take with you if stranded on an uninhabited island? My worst is that – as my children point out – I always think I’m right. But Emma Samms, the actress, is always there one of the first people I’d turn to in a crisis. I’ve had a lot of famous numbers, over the years, though I delete after interviews. Who is the most famous person in your phone? The Dalai Lama made the point that we often confuse pleasure with happiness. What is the most important lesson life has taught you?ĭouble-check the ‘To’ line in emails before pressing ‘send’. (Though now they’ve closed *weeps*, I’m going to try the Natural Cookery School in Day’s Mill.)Īny bucket from Brutons. With my family, my cerebrally-challenged spaniel, and a vegan takeaway from Nailsworth’s Wild Garlic. I’d get someone (come on, people this is eminently feasible) to pass a law that no utility company could dig up a road within 12 months of another, bar emergencies. (Well, look him up, then.)īack in 2003, when I was protesting against the impending Iraq War, Stroud not only had a peace group I could join: it offered a choice of two. I’d vote Scarlett Johansson but, for greater realism, we’re looking more in the mould of Marty Feldman. Who would play you in a film about your life? My family currently describe my cooking style as ‘Russian roulette’. I had Covid back in October and haven’t been able to smell or taste much since. I smelt bleach the other day and was beyond thrilled. I would have sent it back but I couldn’t because I’d torn up the packaging. I once bought an air fryer, and tore up the packaging so Ian, my husband, wouldn’t see it. Though, hearteningly, my brother pointed out I could still say, ‘Beware of the sausage dog’.īuying kitchen gadgets I don’t use. I can remember Cave Canem (‘Beware of the dog’) and tomaculum (‘sausage’ a word used in one of Juvenal’s satires). Not being able to recall much Latin, despite studying it at university. What has been your biggest disappointment? I felt deeply sympathetic towards all the other poor motorists that day, highly surprised to find themselves before a packed gallery of the UK’s national press. His solicitor (appearing in his stead) pleaded that, were Mr Clapton to be banned, bus services in London would mitigate against him travelling to concerts with his guitar. I once went to report at Stroud Magistrates’ Court, only to find Eric Clapton up for speeding on the M5. I’m happy most of the time but loved my days on the Stroud News & Journal, back when wonderful Dennis Mason was editor. She lives in Nailsworth, where she’s a member of the Nailsworth Festival team. Katie writes for national and local press – including Cotswold Life magazine – as well as being the author/contributing author to books on the Cotswolds, local history and cheese. Stroud Times sat down with journalist Katie Jarvis.