- Research Affiliate, Department of English, University of Bristol
I'm an expert in Victorian women's feminist magazines, interested in groundbreaking interviews with professional women from the late 19th century. My doctoral thesis looked at how British and Indian women's dress choices in the Victorian period were affected by the patriarchal dictates that encumbered them. I have done research on women's struggles with dress when engaging in sports and physical activities like horse riding, cricket, or even normal walking, leading to the ultimate 'trousers debate' of the late Victorian era. My wider interest lies in women's feminist colonial media history, in looking at the cross-racial networks and international connections built by British and Indian women's feminist periodical press between 1880 and 1910, which sowed the seeds of what became the more full-fledged transnational Suffrage movement of the early 20th century.
Experience
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–presentResearch Affiliate, University of Bristol
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2021–2025Assistant Teacher, University of Bristol
Education
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2024University of Bristol, PhD English
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2020University of Warwick, MA English Literature
Publications
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2025Victorian Periodicals Review, Victorian Feminist Periodicals and the New Indian Woman: Indian Women’s Interviews in the Women’s Penny Paper and the Woman’s Signal
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2024Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Of sartorial mimicry and woman: Indian women emulating or rejecting English dress in women’s late colonial writing
Grants and Contracts
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2025Royal Historical Society
- Role:
- Early Career Fellow
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2024Pasold Research Fund
- Role:
- Research Grant
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2022Chalke Valley History Trust
- Role:
- Postgraduate Grant
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- Location: Bristol, UK
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