Amy Milne-Smith is Associate Professor of History at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. She is the author of London Clubland: A Cultural History of Gender and Class in Late-Victorian Britain (2011) and several articles on the history of elite masculinity. Her current research focuses on representations and understandings of men’s mental illness both in public and private life. You can follow her on Twitter @AmyMilneSmith. This post accompanies Amy Milne-Smith’s Journal of Victorian Culture article, ‘Shattered Minds: Madmen on the Railways’, which can
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Jessica Cox, The Queen of Sensation
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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