Member Profile
Name:
Madison Marshall
Institution:
The University of Leeds
Academic status:
PhD candidate and PGTA
Main discipline:
English Language and English Literature
Additional disciplines:
Life Writing
Other societies:
Research interests:
Funded by the AHRC through the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities (WRoCAH), my PhD research examines a mid-to-late Victorian intellectual circle of family and friends within the Wedgwood-Darwin network (WDN) , central to which is the father-daughter relationship of philologist Hensleigh Wedgwood (HW) and his daughter, the novelist, feminist writer and literary critic Julia ‘Snow’ Wedgwood (JW). Set against the Victorian backdrop of gendered ideas about intellect and scholarship, my thesis is framed in a wider discussion of the WDN, within which the intellectual position of HW and JW is more narrowly contextualized. Drawing extensively on unpublished archives, my thesis intervenes between the model that frames the narrative within singular social networks and that which considers the impact of multiple non-exclusive collaborative networks.