York Notes Companions: Victorian Literature

About Beth Palmer

Dr Beth Palmer is lecturer in English Literature at the University of Surrey (from September 2010). Her teaching interests are wide-ranging and she has taught British and American literature from the 18th to 21st centuries with particular interests in Victorian fiction women's writing and the Bronte sisters. Her research interests have centred around Victorian fiction print culture and the press readership and women's writing. Forthcoming publications are Womens Authorship and Editorship in Victorian Culture: Sensational Strategies (Oxford University Press 2011) and A Return to the Common Reader: Print Culture and the Novel 1850-1900 eds Beth Palmer and Adelene Buckland (Ashgate 2011). She is currently developing a new research project on the relationship between the popular theatre and the Victorian novel and is also interested in neo-Victorian fiction.