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Academic Publications    

‘Little Puggies: Consuming Cuteness and Deforming Motherhood in Ferrier’s Marriage’, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 34.3 (2022), 307–332 <https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.34.3.307>

‘In the Dog House: British Canines at Home, 1688–1832’, Home Cultures, 18.2 (2022), 129–149 <https://doi.org/10.1080/17406315.2021.1963610>

‘China-Pugs: The Global Circulation of Chinoiseries, Porcelain, and Lapdogs, 1660–1800’, in Oriental Networks: Culture, Commerce and Communication, 1642–1842, ed. by Greg Clingham and Bärbel Czennia (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2020), 63–91

‘Mad Dogs, Sad Dogs and the “War Against Curs” in London in 1760’, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 42.1 (2019), 101–118 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12592>

Freelance Writing

‘The Queen’s Pack: How the corgi became Elizabeth’s trademark sidekick’, Slate Magazine (September 2022)

‘Art gone to the dogs: canine portraiture in modern Britain’, Art UK (August 2o22)                                                        

‘Bridgerton’s Beloved Corgi Is a Total Fraud’, Slate Magazine                                                                                     (March 2022)

‘Hogarth’s love for his pug was a bone of contention among critics‘, Apollo online (October 2021)                                             

‘Who’s Afraid of the Dog-Banditti?’, History Today (June 2021)                                                                                                     

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Country Focus

Britain

Expertise by Geography

British Isles, United Kingdom, Western Europe

Expertise by Chronology

18th century, 19th century, Early Modern, Modern

Expertise by Topic

Environment, Family, Literary History, Material Culture, Women