[Events] Theory and Practice in Contemporary Women’s Writing
23 October 2010, University of Leicester
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[Symposium] A Dead End?: Feminism Beyond the Academy
2 October 2010, The Women’s Library, London
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Dead Husbands & Dirty Secrets: Fashioning the Neo-Victorian Widow
09/04/2010, “Fashioning the Neo-Victorian”, Erlangen-Nuremberg.
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Writing Bodies/ [Events] Reading Bodies in Contemporary Women’s Writing
11-12 September 2009, University of Oxford
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[Victorian Comic Song] “Beautiful Young Widow Brown” (1865) by Arthur Lloyd
Song about a London widow who allows a suitor to woo her with presents before marrying another man.
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[Victorian Comic Song] “I’m a Widow Worth Having” (1861) by A Lady
Song about a widow who (falsely) advertises herself as low-maintenance.
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I’m Senior Lecturer in English Literature & Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University and a BBC New Generation Thinker. I specialise in literary and cultural histories of women, gender, and feminism in Britain from the nineteenth century to the present day, women’s writing, and widowhood. I also provide support, training, and development for postgraduate […]
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