Although history records that the British nineteenth century was obsessed with order, conventionality, and conformity, this study highlights myriad Victorians from all walks of life, across lines of class, race…

‘Betwixt and Between the Biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft’ identifies the biases, contradictions, errors, ambiguities and gaps that have run rampant in biographies on Wollstonecraft, many of them incomprehensively left unchecked…

For the cover of my first What Dog Lovers Know About God, I used a picture of Lyssie, who was my first cocker spaniel and who lived with me for…

Victorians and Their Animals: Beast on a Leash, investigates the notion that British Victorians did see themselves as naturally dominant species over other humans and over animals. They conscientiously, hegemonically…

This handbook is an invaluable resource about Victorian literature, art, and culture which challenges its readers to ponder perplexing questions about how and why some scandals were perpetrated and propagated…

Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture is a collection of original essays that explore the representation of animals in children’s literature. It focuses on the influence of animals to…

Contains three early examples of the genre of New Woman writing, each portraying women in ways wholly different to those which had gone before

The writings of Frances Trollope have been subject to increasing academic interest in recent years, and are now widely studied