Vicky Simpson
BA Hon (Acadia), MA (Wilfrid Laurier), PhD (UNB)
Vicky Simpson’s research focuses on nineteenth-century British literature, particularly women’s writing, Gothic literature, and sensation fiction. Her monograph, titled Royally Fictional Families: From Queen Victoria to the Sensation Writers, had its genesis in her PhD dissertation. Her recent publications include articles on women “homemakers” in Ellen Wood’s East Lynne, on storytelling and autobiography in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, and on supernatural women in nineteenth-century Gothic literature. Her current project delves into the politics of authorship and narration, the form of the roman-fleuve, and the history of sexualities. This monograph, tentatively titled Ellen Wood’s Johnny Ludlow Stories: From “Muff” to Man, will explore Victorian writer Ellen Wood’s career as a professional woman writer, her transition from sensation fiction to realist short fiction, and her appropriation of a masculine voice in the Johnny Ludlow Stories (1868-1887). This project has been funded in part by a research award from Mount Allison University.
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