Re-reading: A personal note

November 26, 2015 lucindamatthewsjonesLeave a comment

I’ve spent the last of couple of weeks re-reading academic books and articles that I first read when I was an MA and PhD student. It’s been fun, tiring and unnerving. I’m mainly reading and pondering for a book chapter that I’ve been asked to write for Jane Hamlett’s edited collection on the nineteenth-century home.… Continue reading Re-reading: A personal note

In search of Mrs Edward Lewis

December 2, 2014December 2, 2014 lucindamatthewsjones4 Comments

I’ve always found it frustrating that women can become subsumed, for the purposes of historical research, by their husband’s surname. It probably explains why I’ll never been known as Mrs Mansell despite my grandmother’s protestations! This has really been brought to the fore for me recently because for the last four months I’ve been on… Continue reading In search of Mrs Edward Lewis

Lucinda Matthews-Jones

Historian, Victorianist & Lecturer

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Re-reading: A personal note

In search of Mrs Edward Lewis