Spring seminar series 2007

Revising Cultural Histories of Crime and Punishment: Women and Prison-Writing in Victorian England

• 24 January 2007
• Speaker: Dr Anne Schwan (University of Oxford)

Dickins and the Urania Cottage Women

• 7 February 2007
• Speaker: Professor Jenny Hartley (Roehampton University)

Ruth Willis: A Leicester Poet and Her Working-class Sisters

• 21 February 2007
• Speaker: Professor Florence S Boos (University of Iowa)

Dazzlement vs. Domesticity: Gendered Cultures of Electric Illumination in the Late Nineteenth Century

• 7 March 2007
• Speaker: Dr Graeme Gooday (University of Leeds)

Cinderella Revisited: Women Writers and the Nineteenth-Century Stepfamily

• 21 March 2007
• Speaker: Dr Christine Paulson (University of Sheffield)

Reclaming "The vâices that be gone": The Challenge of William Barnes's Dialect Poems

• 9 May 2007
• Speaker: Dr Tom Burton (University of Adelaide)