5.14 Jonathan Conlin on Chevalière d'Eon and her Portrait Prints

Hopkins Press Podcasts · Oct 29, 2026 · 24m

On today’s episode of the Hopkins Press Podcast, we're talking with Jonathan Conlin, whose article in the latest issue of Eighteenth Century Studies, "States of Transition: The Chevalière d’Eon and Her Portrait Prints, 1764–91" studies portrait prints of the Chevalière d’Eon commissioned in the late eighteenth century, which, as Conlin reads, serve as a way for d’Eon to create and control an image and narrative for herself as a historical figure, and as perhaps the first real celebrity figure to emerge from Europe. While there has been a lot of work published on d’Eon’over the years—a…