Doctoral Researcher, School of English, University of Sheffield
I graduated from the University of Sheffield with a first class degree in 1998. In 2013, I returned to part-time study and completed my Masters Degree with distinction. I am now a full-time PhD Researcher in the School of English at the University of Sheffield studying the evocation of place and space within the works of Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806). I also have an interest in the romance genre generally, from eighteenth-century fiction to contemporary romantic novels, especially Harlequin Mills & Boons.
Beauty and the Beast was originally a feminist fable disguised as marriage guidance
Mar 17, 2017 10:46 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
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