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Name:
Mercedes Sheldon
Institution:
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities {USA}
Academic status:
Student
Main discipline:
Literary Studies
Additional disciplines:
Periodical Studies
Other societies:
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
Midwest Society for Victorian Studies
Victorian Popular Fictions Association
Research interests:
- late 19th century British popular fiction in the periodical press as an aspirational model for the construction of class and gender
- Grant Allen's fiction & popular science in mass market periodicals as vehicle for transmitting his gender ideology
- The Strand Magazine during the 1890s

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