Congratulations to Dr Marina Perkins, career development fellow at Queen's College, and to Dr Annalisa Nicholson, former Laming fellow at Queen's, and now a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at KCL who held a joint celebration to launch their books:
Marina Perkins, Communication, Relevance, and Power in Montaigne's Essais (https://www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Communication-Relevance-Power-in-Montaignes-Essais)
Annalisa Nicholson, A Salon-in-Exile: Hortense Mancini and the French Diaspora in Restoration London
(https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/saloninexile-9781350415775/)
Having started their PhDs in French together (at Cambridge), Marina and Lisa have spent the intervening years as firm friends and as colleagues, most recently at Queen's where they both worked on transforming their theses into books. Fittingly enough, it was at Queen's that friends and colleagues met to raise a glass to their publications and to the whole scholarly community of early modernists and of other modern languages specialists who supported Lisa and Marina at various stages.