[Commentary] ‘Widders are ’ceptions to ev’ry rule’: The Widow in...
Below you can find the Prezi for this talk. If you are unfamiliar with Prezi: all you need to do is press the “Play” button to click your way through the presentation (note that the picture will...
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[Commentary] Charming, Crafty, Complicated: Widows in Victorian Comic Songs
When I began my research on the literary and cultural history of the widow, I didn’t anticipate that I’d be faced with stacks of large mid-Victorian song books instead of neat volumes of fiction...
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[Commentary] For the Sake of the Children: Widows & Welfare in the 1960s
Widows have held a peculiar and often ambiguous position in British culture for several centuries, and this is not least due to the fact that they were often able to act as propertied subjects when...
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[Research Seminar] The Widow: A Literary & Cultural History (1837-1979)
I’m delighted to have been invited to deliver a research seminar presentation as part of the Inventions of Text seminar series at Durham’s English department. You can find an abstract for my talk...
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