Vicky Simpson
BA Hon (Acadia), MA (Wilfrid Laurier), PhD (UNB)
Dr. Simpson’s research focuses on nineteenth-century British literature, particularly women’s writing, Gothic literature, and sensation fiction. She explored these interests in her PhD dissertation, Royally Fictional Families: From Queen Victoria to the Sensation Writers.
She has published and forthcoming articles in the journals Women’s Writing, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, Victorian Review, and The Victorians Institute Journal. This work includes articles on women “homemakers” in Ellen Wood’s East Lynne, on storytelling and autobiography in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre , on non-normative families in Wilkie Collins’s No Name, and on the phantasmagoric narration of Elizabeth Gaskell’s “The Old Nurse’s Story”.
Her current research involves two projects: a monograph tentatively titled Of “Muff” and Man: Gender and Narration in Ellen Wood’s Johnny Ludlow Stories (1868-1887), and an article, tentatively titled “Farmer George Takes a Wife: The Georgian Royal Family,” for a collection called After Marriage in the Long Eighteenth Century.
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