Lillie Langtry is one of my favourite things. True.
My research looks at performances of Shakespeare’s heroines in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods.
In particular, I’m interested in performances by Constance Benson, Stella Campbell, Madge Robertson Kendal, Olive Kennett, Lillie Langtry, and Ellen Terry – although, really, if it’s fin-de-siecle and/or Shakespearean, I’m there. The plays I’m investigating include All’s Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, Cymbeline, Hamlet and Macbeth.
The society comedies of Oscar Wilde are an additional interest. My first article, on the revision history of Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) was published in the Bodleian Library Record Vol 23 No 2 (October 2010). The title was “Oscar Wilde’s ‘A Good Woman’: A Bibliographical Investigation into Magdalen College MS. 300″.
At Oxford, I’m the Submissions Editor for the AHRC-funded postgraduate journal Victorian Network, and a committee member for the Oxford English Graduate Conference 2011, “The Famed and the Forgotten“.
