Chasing the Ghost of Melesina Trench: A film by Qina Liu in collaboration with Katharine Kittredge

Abstract

Filmmaker Qina Liu has created a short documentary about Katharine Kittredge's decade-long quest to learn about the life and work of Anglo-Irish diarist and poet Melesina Trench. The story tells of remarkable coincidences, documents lost and found, and the emergence of Trench's descendants in the project's final chapter.

Keywords

• early modern women's writing
• diaries
• bluestockings
• Irish Quakers
• poetry
• science fiction
• mourning
• courtship
• early modern gender roles
• Lord Nelson
• Emma Hamilton
• microhistory