George Egerton: Terra Incognitas

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Isobel Sigley was awarded a PhD in English from Loughborough University in 2023. Her thesis A (New) Womans Touch: Tactility and Feminism in Womens Fin-de-Siecle Short Fiction 1880-1930 examines tactility as a form of feminist praxis within womens short stories of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. She has published work on George Egerton (2021 VPJF) and Alice Dunbar-Nelson (2024 Journal of Medical Humanities) both of whose works were explored alongside works by Sarah Grand Kate Chopin Vernon Lee and Katherine Mansfield within Isobels doctoral thesis. Prior to her PhD Isobel gained an MA in English Literature from Keele University. Isobel first became fascinated by George Egerton when studying for her undergraduate degree at Loughborough University where the first international conference dedicated to Egertons life and works was held in 2017.Whitney Standlee is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Worcester and is the author of the monograph Power to Observe: Irish Women Novelists in Britain 1890-1916 (2015) and co-editor (with Anna Pilz) of Irish Womens Writing 1878-1922: Advancing the Cause of Liberty (2016/paperback 2018) both of which include original research on Egerton. A founding member of the Irish Womens Writing 1880-1920 Network she and Pilz are also co-originators and editors of two popular series of online interviews for the network. Her most recent publications include a double issue of English Studies co-edited with Laing Mooney Ní Bheacháin Pilz and Stevens entitled Connecting Voices: An Introduction to Irish Women Writers Collaborations and Networks 1880-1940 (2023).