Scholar - Women Also Know History

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Keywords: Brontes, Victorian literature and culture, literary tourism, women's writing, biographical fiction, neo-Victorian literature, Henry Siddons

About Me: I hold an MA in Victorian literature and a PhD, both from the University of Leeds. I have published widely on the Brontes’ lives, literature, and legacies. I have also published on literary tourism, and am co-curator of the Placing the Author WordPress site, which features a collection of ‘postcard’ reflections from present-day literary tourists to sites associated with nineteenth-century authors, as well as an interactive map of these sites. I’m currently working on a project about Henry Siddons, theatre, and psychology.

Recent Publications: 6 essays on the novels of Henry Siddons, for The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming April 2020)

“In the Governess’ Room.” Pedagogy. 19.3 (Forthcoming, October 2019)

‘”Swallow it’: Imagining Incest in Interwar Writing on the Brontes.” Bronte Studies (Forthcoming, January 2019)

Emily Bronte Bicentenary Edition, special issue of Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature, ed. by Deborah Denenholz Morse and Amber Pouliot (Forthcoming, Fall 2018)

“Reading the Revenant in Charlotte Bronte’s Literary Afterlives: Charting the Path from the “Silent Country” to the Seance.” Charlotte Bronte: Legacies and Afterlives, ed. by Amber Regis and Deborah Wynne, Manchester University Press, 2017. 96-115.

Charlotte Bronte Bicentenary Edition, special issue of Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature, ed. by Deborah Denenholz Morse and Amber Pouliot, vol. 130 (Fall 2016)