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Name:
Mrs Alison Newbold
Institution:
University of Chester
Academic status:
PhD Student
Main discipline:
Literary Studies
Additional disciplines:
Cultural Studies
Other societies:
The Brontë Society
Research interests:
PhD student researching 'The Lives and Afterlives of Nineteenth Century Literary Garden Spaces'. My particular interest is ways in which women engaged with gardens and expanded their domestic sphere and how this translated into women's fictional writing as the century progressed.
Exploring Brontë sisters' writings, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Elizabeth Von Arnim and Jane Austen.
Landscape writings of Repton, Knight, Price and Loudon.

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