Academic publications
This lists some of my academic publications, including those on research undertaken in the archives for my long-term project about the women of the Yellow Book
I was a Research Fellow at the Institute of English, School of Advanced Study, University of London from 2006 to 2024. The Institute is based at Senate House in Bloomsbury
As well as support from the IES, I have received grants for my Decadent Women work from the British Academy, the Scouloudi Foundation and the Authors' Society
Academic Publications
Netta Syrett: A Yellow Book Survivor English Literature in Transition
vol. 62 no 2 2019 pp.206-243
‘Slimy trails and holy places’ Dowson’s strange life in context in ‘Betwixt the Bounds of Life and Death': Selected Essays on Ernest Dowson
Peter Lang 2019
The 1890s Woman
in Edinburgh Companion to Fin-de-siecle Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press 2018 pp. 283-300
Olive Custance: A Poet Crossing Boundaries
English Literature in Transition
vol. 61 no 1 2018 pp. 35-65
Menie Muriel Dowie: The 'Modern' Woman of Choices
English Literature in Transition
vol. 58 no 3 2015 pp. 313-40
Feminist Solidarity in the Life and Work of Ella Hepworth Dixon
The Latchkey
vol 5 summer 2013 http://www.thelatchkey.org/Latchkey5/essay/Adams.htm
The Drowning of Hubert Crackanthorpe and the Persecution of Leila Macdonald
English Literature in Transition
vol. 52 no 1 2009 pp.6-34
Gabriela Cunninghame Graham: Deception and Achievement in the 1890s
English Literature in Transition
vol.50 no 3 2007 pp.251-268
William and Edna Clarke Hall: Private and Public Childhood “Your Child For Ever”
English Literature in Transition
vol. 49 no 4 2006 pp.398-417
Kipling's Dilemma: Decadent or Hearty?
The Kipling Journal
vol 82 no 325 2008 pp.9-27 https://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/2686/
How the Great Mendoza put Judaism and Courage Together
The Cable issue 7 2008 pp.10-15
Several Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
entries including ones on Ethel Colburn Mayne and Coulson Kernahan and a group entry on 'The Rhymers'
Recent Conference Papers
Looking North: 1890s Women and Scandinavia
Women Writing Decadence
University of Oxford 7 July 2018
The Race Fault-Line in Pioneer Women’s Suffrage Nations
Race, Female Suffrage and Parliamentary Representation in the Global South House of Commons 9 February 2018
‘Slimy trains and holy places: Dowson’s strange life in context
Ernest Dowson: Poet, Translator, Novelist
Goldsmiths’ College 15 April 2016
International Perspectives on Women’s Suffrage
Gender, Politics and Agency
Winchester University 27 September 2016 (
‘I will say “yes sir” to my husband’ Women’s Suffrage in the Newly Independent Nations of the British Empire
European Social Sciences History
Conference Valencia 30 March 2016.
Gandhi in London
Fin de siècle Echoes
Kings College, London 12 December 2015
‘Yesternight’ the Alexandrine and Memory in Dowson’s Cynara Poem
Decadence and the Senses
Goldsmiths College, University of London 10 April 2014
‘The wonderful Mission of Earl Lavender’: Money as the Measure of Evolutionary Success
Victorian Popular Fiction Association conference
Institute of English, Univesity of London 11 July 2012
Kipling – A Post-decadent Imperialist?
Rudyard Kipling: An International Writer
Institute of English, University of London 21 October 2011
Absinthism, Role Reversal and the Death of the Race in Nineteenth Century France
Damaging the Body
Wellcome Institute, London 24 September 2010
Ménie Muriel Dowie the ‘modern’ woman of choices
Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siècle
Institute of English Studies University of London 28 June 2010
Feminist solidarity and eugenics in the life and work of Ménie Muriel Dowie and Ella Hepworth Dixon
Victorian Popular Novelists conference Institute of English Studies, University of London 11 September 2009
Academic Reviews
I have reviewed a good deal for mainstream publications. That will be covered on the 'Journalism' page. This page relates to reviews in academic journals.
Decadence: A Very Short Introduction
(David Weir) The Wildean
no 53 July 2018 pp 70-2
Decadence: A Literary Anthology
(ed. Jon Crabb) The Wildean
no 52 January 2018 pp 103-5
Meeting Without Knowing It: Kipling and Yeats at the Fin de Siécle
(Alexander Bubb) Yeats Annual
no 21, 2018
The Porter’s Daughter: The Life of Amy Audrey Locke
(Winifred Dawson) Essays in Honour of Eammon Cantwell Yeats Annual
no 20, 2016 pp 445-9
John Evelyn Barlas, A Critical Biography: Poetry, Anarchism and Mental Illness in Late-Victorian Britain
(Philip Cohen) in the academic online review forum Review 19 Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, 2104 http://www.review19.org/view_doc.php?index=284
'Let our fame be great' Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus Political Quarterly
vol 83 no 1 2012 pp 180-2
Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape
Political Quarterly
vol 80 no 1 2009 pp 149-51
Essays on Decadence English Literature in Transition
vol 51 no 2 2008 pp 225-228
Citizen Moore: An American Patriot? Political Quarterly
vol 79 no 1 2008 pp 133-136
Love and Dirt: The Marriage of Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullick
Women's Writing
vol 11 no 2 2004 pp 324-328
Reflections of Anti-Semitism in Victorian Society 1840-1875
The work I did for my MA at Birkbeck College, University of London has never been published so I am making it available here. Reflections of Anti-Semitism in Victorian Society 1840-75 covers British newspaper coverage of 'ritual murder' allegations in Turkey in 1840; the campaign for the removal of Jewish civil disabiities from 1847 to 1858 and the elevation of Benjamin Disraeli.
It also covers images of Jewishness in literature including some notable works such as Trollope's The Way We Live Now and Eliot's Daniel Deronda.