Tag: 1860s

Jessica Cox is a lecturer in English at Brunel University, London.  She has research interests in Victorian popular fiction (particularly sensation fiction), the Brontёs, first-wave feminism, and neo-Victorianism.  She is the author of a short biography of Charlotte Brontё and editor of a collection of essays on Mary Elizabeth Braddon.  She is currently writing a book on the neo-sensation novel.  You can follow her on Twitter @jessjcox and email her at Jessica.cox@brunel.ac.uk.  1861 was a busy year for Isabella Beeton, with the publication of

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