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PUBLICATIONS

An edition of Charles Dickens’s (admittedly awful) verse productions!

Chapters in:

    • “No Exhibition Desired: Dickens on the Abolitionist Fringe.” Rethinking Race, Nation and Empire: Charles Dickens, Slavery, and the American Civil War. Edited by Jennifer MacLure, Jude Nixon, and Carolyn Berman. Routledge, 2026.

    • —   with Emily Middleton. “Digitisation and engagement.” In Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. Edited by Michaela Mahlberg and Gavin Brookes. Bloomsbury, 2026.

    • —   with Emily Middleton. “Dickens Search.” In Digital Dickens. Edited by Pete Orford and Claire Wood. White Rose Press, 2026.

    • —   with Catherine Quirk. “Moderating the Dickens Wars: A Social Media History of The Dickens Society.” In Digital Dickens. Edited by Pete Orford and Claire Wood. White Rose Press, 2026.

    • “Sarah E. Farro Against Chicago: Life Records of a Nineteenth-Century African American Novelist.” In the Routledge Companion to Global Victorian Literature and Culture. Edited by Fariha Shaikh and Sukanya Banerjee. Routledge, 2025.

    • “Review Article of Dickens Studies for 2024.” Dickens Studies Annual, 2026.

    • “‘Dickens’s Favourite Daughter’? Edward W. Bok Secures Mamie Dickens for The Ladies Home Journal.” The Dickensian, Winter 2025, pp. 290-306. 

    • “Milk-blooded Cowards and Brute Beasts: A Georgian Crisis of Manhood Resolved in Wuthering Heights.” In Critical Insights: Wuthering Heights. Edited by Bob Evans. Salem Press, 2025, pp. 162-81. ISBN: 979-8-89179-126-8.

    • (with Emily Middleton). The Verse of Charles Dickens. Edinburgh University Press, 2025. ISBN: 9781399531108.

    • “ 'Of Spirits so Lost and Fallen’: The Violent Byronic Hero in Miserrimus and Wuthering Heights." Brontë Studies, February 2023, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 1-13. DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2022.2148838. 

    • "‘Keep[ing] the Outward Figure Away from the Fact’: Reading Harold Skimpole as a Person of Color in Bleak House." Dickens Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 3, September 2022, pp. 310-335, DOI: 10.1353/dqt.2022.0026. 

    • “Drafting Jane Eyre: Charlotte Bronte at the Circulating Library.” Victorian Popular Fictions Journal. Edited by Andrew King and Mariaconcetta Constantini. Spring 2022, vol. 4, iss. 1, pp. 78-93. DOI: 10.46911/SHAI3722.   

    • “An Overview of Digital Resources for the Study of Victorian Fiction.” Edited by Edward Guiliano. Dickens Studies Annual, vol. 53, no. 1, March 2022, pp. 80-87. DOI: 10.5325/dickstudannu.53.1.0070.

    • “‘Gazing at all the church and chapel going’: Social Views of Religious Nonconformity in Dickens’s Fiction.” Edited by Brenda A. Ayres and Sarah E. Maier. The Theological Dickens. Routledge, 2021, pp. 110-127. ISBN: 9780367742157.

    • “What Charles Dickens Never Said: Verifying Internet ‘Quotes’ and Accessing the Works with Online Resources.” Dickens Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 3, September 2020, pp. 249-263. DOI: 10.1353/dqt.2020.0033.

    • “‘A Horrid Female Waterman’: The Contentious Legacy of Grace Darling in Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend.” Dickens and Women Re-observed. Edited by Edward Guiliano. Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd., 2020, pp. 267-287. ISBN: 978-1913087203. 

    • “The Devastating Impact of Lord Wharton’s Bible Charity in Wuthering Heights.” Edited by Deborah Logan. Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature, no. 134, December 2018, pp. 234-249. DOI: 10.1353/vct.2018.0021.

    • “Tweeting Tippins: Using Digital Media to Recreate Our Mutual Friend’s Serialization.” Dickens Quarterly, vol. 35, iss. 2, 2018, pp. 149-158. DOI: 10.1353/dqt.2018.0014.

    • “The Juvenile and Erudite: A Study of the Marginalia in Newberry Case Y 12.T219.” JMMLA, vol. 50, no. 2, Fall 2017, pp. 11-29. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44862248.

    • “Misogyny or Artistry?: Revisions to Two Conrad Heroines from Serial to First Edition.”
      Conrad: Critical Insights. Edited by Jeremiah Garsha. Salem Press, 2016, pp. 69-83. ISBN: 
      978-1-68217-114-1.

    • “Politic Silence: Female Choruses in Lochhead’s Medea and Wertenbaker’s The Love of the Nightingale.” Edited by Graley Herren. Text & Presentation. McFarland, 2015, pp. 42-56. ISBN: 9781476624730.

    • The Life of the Author: Charles Dickens by Pete Orford. Wiley-Blackwell, 2023. The Dickensian, Summer 2025, pp. 231-3.

    • Dickens, Death, and Christmas by Robert L. Patten. Oxford University Press, 2023. The Dickensian, Spring 2025, pp. 89-90.

    • The Brontës & The Fairy Tale by Jessica Campbell. Ohio University Press, 2024. Brontë Studies, vol. 50, issue 3, 2025, pp. 337-9.

    • The Invention of Charlotte Brontë: Her Last Years and the Scandal That Made Her by Graham Watson. The History Press, 2024. Brontë Studies, 2024,vol. 49, issue 4, pp. 370-2.

    • Charles Dickens and Georgina Hogarth: A Curious and Enduring Relationship. Manchester University Press, 2023. The Dickensian, Summer 2024, pp. 215-7.

    • The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens by Helena Kelly. New York and London: Pegasus Books, 2023 & The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences, & Observations of Charles Dickens by Michael Allen. St. Leonards: Oxford-Stockley Publications, 2023. English Studies, 2024, pp. 1-3.

    • Determining Wuthering Heights: Ideology, Intertexts, Tradition by Maria Valero Redondo. Peter Lang, 2021. Brontë Studies, 2023, vol. 48, issue 3, pp. 273-5.

    • The Turning Point: 1851 – A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. Knopf Doubleday. 2022. The Dickensian, vol. 119, no. 520, 2023, pp. 219-22.