Staff profiles
Dr Susan McPherson
BA, MA (York), PhD (Cambridge)
Phone 0114 225 4164
Research interests/current work
- Life writing of the 'long' nineteenth century
- Victorian literary production and consumption
Currently completing
- A monograph, 'Victorian Life Writing and Work: Labour, Leisure and Authority'
Research outputs since 2001
'Women's Theatrical Memoirs' (with Julia Swindells, Cambridge University), London: Pickering and Chatto/Chawton House, January 2008
'On Being 'Tempted to Knit': Reading, Reviewing and Writing Biography.' Nineteenth-Century Contexts 28.1 (2006): 49-65
'Opening the Open Secret: The Stowe-Byron Controversy.' Victorian Review 27.1 (2001): 86-101
'Life-Writing and Journalism.' In The Encyclopaedia of Life Writing: Forms and Genres. Ed Margaretta Jolly London: Fitzroydearborn, 2001: 507-8.
'Life Writing and Scandal.' In The Encyclopaedia of Life Writing: Forms and Genres. Ed Margaretta Jolly. London: Fitzroydearborn, 2001: 784-5
