Professor Carolyn Oulton

Research Projects

• 'An Orphic exploration of the ineffable through the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. Researcher(s): Ms Sinead Fitzgerald. Supervisor(s): Dr Peter Watts, Professor Carolyn Oulton. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• A Place in Society: The Private Public of the Persistent Scribblers' Society. Researcher(s): Mrs Michelle Crowther. Supervisor(s): Dr Susan Civale, Professor Carolyn Oulton. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Beach City Canterbury: Creative and Craft Workshop. Researcher(s): Professor Carolyn Oulton, Dr Susan Civale. [Project]
• Class based study of female masculinity from first to second wave feminism. Researcher(s): Ms Jan Dunn. Supervisor(s): Dr Mitch Goodrum, Dr Dave Hitchcock, Professor Carolyn Oulton. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Doctoral Research Project. Researcher(s): Dr Nihad Laouar. Supervisor(s): Dr Andrew Humphries, Professor Carolyn Oulton. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
• Doctoral Research Project. Researcher(s): Dr Alyson Hunt. Supervisor(s): Dr Susan Civale, Professor Carolyn Oulton. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
• Doctoral Research Project. Researcher(s): Mrs Lizzy Duffield-Fuller. Supervisor(s): Dr Susan Civale, Professor Carolyn Oulton. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
• Going in Circles: Changing perceptions of the Arctic through literary and visual representations in the Long Nineteenth-Century. Researcher(s): Dr Jacqueline Stamp. Supervisor(s): Professor Carolyn Oulton, Dr Peter Merchant, Professor Peter Vujakovic. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
• How might a new approach to the production of Neo-Victorian writing, using experimental creative writing, historic material research, and ‘reenactment’, help resolve the tensions between creativity, imagination, and historical accuracy in the genre? What does the personal experience of neurodivergence add to the processes and outcomes of this approach to historical creative writing?. Researcher(s): Miss Elizabeth Waterman-Scrase. Supervisor(s): Dr Sonia Overall, Professor Carolyn Oulton. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Let’s do the time walk again! Exploring the East Kent Coast through digital heritage.. Researcher(s): Professor Carolyn Oulton, Mrs Michelle Crowther. [Project]
• Moving through uncertainty with George Meredith. Researcher(s): Mrs Sylvia Hornsby. Supervisor(s): Professor Carolyn Oulton, Dr Simon Wilson. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Not simply a ‘literary editor’ 1 : reassessing Rose Weigall as a writer of women’s stories and an advocate for women’s agency.. Researcher(s): Mrs Elizabeth Earl. Supervisor(s): Dr Susan Civale, Professor Carolyn Oulton. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Quantifying and Qualifying Inventorised ‘Heirlooms’: A reconstruction of the material legacy of the Hammond Family of St Albans Court Nonington 1551 – 1938 including a searchable dataset.. Researcher(s): Mrs Victoria Stevens. Supervisor(s): Dr Claire Bartram, Professor Carolyn Oulton. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Recovering Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856–1934): Genre and Geography. Researcher(s): Miss Hayley Smith. Supervisor(s): Professor Carolyn Oulton, Dr Christian Beighton. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• The ‘Strange’ Disappearance of Henrietta Stannard: Rediscovering the Life and Work of John Strange Winter, a fin de siecle celebrity. Researcher(s): Mrs Toni Atkinson. Supervisor(s): Dr Susan Civale, Professor Carolyn Oulton. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• The Mission of Mary Eliza Haweis (1848-1898). Researcher(s): Miss Laura Allen. Supervisor(s): Professor Carolyn Oulton, Dr Susan Civale. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• The New University in Post-War British Literature. Researcher(s): Mr Daniel Vince. Supervisor(s): Dr Andrew Palmer, Professor Carolyn Oulton. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• The Pilgrim-Writer: The transformative potential of the language arts and pilgrimage – an embodied investigation of self, drawing on theory and practice, including my own direct experience of contemporary pilgrimage and ‘languaging’.. Researcher(s): Ms Victoria Field. Supervisor(s): Dr Sonia Overall, Professor Carolyn Oulton. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• The Voices of Ellen Courtenay- the Life and Work of Ellen Courtenay as Madame Helene Steinberg- Actress, Appeal Memoirist, Lecturer and Poet.. Researcher(s): Mrs Trina Willis. Supervisor(s): Dr Susan Civale, Professor Carolyn Oulton. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• The YA novel: a conduit for exploring female disempowerment and self-identity, as demonstrated through the experiences of children of d/Deaf adults (CODAs) and of d/Deaf young adults. Researcher(s): Ms Lucie Bowins Roberts. Supervisor(s): Dr Sonia Overall, Professor Carolyn Oulton. [Postgraduate Research Project]

• ‘If she must see, to see in silence’: Catching up with the Victorians in The Caravaners and The Enchanted April Oulton, C., (01 Jul 2025), New Readings of Elizabeth von Arnim The Unexpected Modernist: Edinburgh University Press. [Book chapter]
• ‘”You can’t marry your grandmother”: face and place in Lady Adelaide’s oath.’ Oulton, C., Victorian Popular Fiction Association Annual Conference. [Conference paper]
• ‘Who wrote this script?' Pickwick in Stepney Oulton, C., (02 May 2025): Open Library of Humanities. [Journal article]
• British women’s writing: Brontë to Bloomsbury. Vol 3. 1880s-90s., (28 Jul 2024). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [Book]
• Catching up with the Victorians in The Caravaners and The Enchanted April Oulton, C., (Jun 2025), New Readings of Elizabeth von Arnim: The Unexpected Modernist. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Book chapter]
• Coarse, vulgar and happy? Writing Dickens on sea Oulton, C., Dickens Fellowship Annual Conference. [Lecture]
• ”[T]he reader will probably not object to accompany me”: walking with Dickens and the late Victorian guide Oulton, C., Victorian Literary Languages Research Network: Mobility and Communication. [Conference paper]
• ‘”A fragment flung on life’s retreating sea’: writing Dickens into the local’. Oulton, C., Dickens Fellowship, Canterbury Branch.. [Lecture]
• Lindow, Ella Amalia [pseud. Gabrielle Wodnil, Ella Wodnil] Oulton, C., (11 May 2023), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Oxford University Press. [Book chapter]
• Middlemass, Mary Jane [Jean] Oulton, C., (11 May 2023), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Oxford University Press. [Book chapter]
• "...all flirtations and curates": selling the seaside to railway readers Oulton, C., Canterbury Festival 2022. [Conference paper]
• ‘”The lights and the shadows of clouds”: going through the glass with Dickens.’ Oulton, C., Dickens Day 2022. [Conference paper]
• ‘”Why were you silent when I spoke tonight?”: coming to terms in Tennyson’s “Sea Dreams” and Swinburne’s A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems.’ Oulton, C., (19 Aug 2022): Ohio State University Press. [Journal article]
• Down from London: Seaside Reading in the Railway Age Oulton, C., (01 Mar 2022): Liverpool University Press. [Book]
• Kent Maps Online: Beyond Dickens Oulton, C., Crowther, M., Medway History Showcase. [Conference paper]
• Literary and film pilgrimage Oulton, C., Lovell, J., Pilgrimage as Transformation Symposium. [Conference paper]
• ‘Fat persons bathing whose appearance was most disgusting’: Entertaining Thanet in the Age of Steam Oulton, C., (Oct 2021), Maritime Kent Through the Ages: Gateway to the Sea: Boydell Press. [Book chapter]
• British women’s writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940. Volume 2: 1860s and 1870s Oulton, C.: Springer. [Book]
• Introduction Oulton, C., British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940 Volume 2: 1860s and 1870s: Springer. [Book chapter]
• Railway fiction or seaside sensation? Journeys to the sea in Lady Audley’s Secret and No Name. Oulton, C., (21 Oct 2021): John Hopkins University Press. [Journal article]
• Mary Cholmondeley Oulton, C., (26 Sep 2019), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing: Palgrave. [Book chapter]
• Secret writing in Margate Caves Overall, S., Oulton, C., Being Human Festival. [Conference or workshop item]
• “licking the chops of memory”: plotting the social sins of Jekyll and Hyde’ Oulton, C., (28 Mar 2018): MDPI. [Journal article]
• ‘”And yet these things were done by educated and kindly men”: negotiating change in Mary Cholmondeley’s 'The Romance of His Life’ Oulton, C., International Centre for Victorian Women Writers Conference 2018: Reassessing Women's Writing of the 1920s and 1930s. [Conference paper]
• ‘”The ideal was not there”: making peace with Dickensian Kent’ Oulton, C., Victorian Popular Fiction Association Conference: War and Peace. [Conference keynote]
• ‘I was in the condition of mind to be shocked at nothing’: losing the plot in Wuthering Heights Oulton, C., (12 Jul 2018), British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940 Volume 1: 1840s and 1850s: Palgrave Macmillan. [Book chapter]
• ‘Smothered under rose-leaves’: violent sensation and the location of the feminine in Eliza Lynn Linton’s sowing the wind' Oulton, C., British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940 Volume 2: 1860s and 1870s: Springer. [Book chapter]
• British women’s writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940 Volume 1: 1840s and 1850s Oulton, C., (12 Jul 2018): Palgrave Macmillan. [Book]
• Volume introduction Oulton, C., British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940 Volume 1: 1840s and 1850s: Palgrave. [Book chapter]
• 'From “Boy” to “Britain”: popular fiction and the Folkestone Free Library 1881-1902' Oulton, C., Institutions of Literature: Institutions as Curators workshop. [Conference paper]
• ‘Making literature ridiculous’: Jerome K. Jerome and the new humour Oulton, C., (20 Oct 2017): Penn State University Press. [Journal article]
• ‘Reading, ephemera and the seaside library’ Oulton, C., Victorian Popular Fiction Association conference. [Conference paper]
• British seaside fiction Oulton, C., (2017), Literary Encyclopedia: The Literary Dictionary Company Limited. [Journal article]
• Femininity and deviance in Mary Cholmondeley’s The Lowest Rung Oulton, C., Reassessing Women’s Writing of the 1900s and 1910s. [Conference paper]
• Jerome K. Jerome, sexual panic and degeneration at the fin de siècle Oulton, C., (18 Feb 2017). [Journal article]
• “He pronounced it gurl“: Mary Cholmondeley, class and gender at the fin de siècle’ Oulton, C., Inaugural lecture. [Lecture]
• “he’d let me turn the house into a theatre”: rewriting the domestic in the sensational world of East Lynne Oulton, C., (2016): Wilkie Collins Society. [Journal article]
• ”I write this with my hands in a basin of water”: Dickens, letters and readers Oulton, C., (2016): The Dickens Fellowship. [Journal article]
• ‘”Coquetting amid incredible landscapes”: Women on the river and the railway’ 1862-1922 Oulton, C., (Sep 2016). [Journal article]
• ‘”Literary Champagne”: or the fiction of seaside reading’ Oulton, C., Victorian Popular Fiction Conference. [Conference paper]
• Accidental fruit Oulton, C., (Sep 2016): Worple Press. [Book]
• Dickens and the myth of the reader Oulton, C., (02 Dec 2016): Routledge. [Book]
• Shams and shadows: meta-fiction and the upper class woman writer Oulton, C., Reassessing Women Writers of the 1880s and 1890s. [Conference paper]
• ”A coverless book without a title-page”: Heritage and the modern in the Dickens centenary year Oulton, C., Victorian Modernities. [Conference paper]
• ”If only there would pass away the horror of those hands!” Cholmondeley, Jerome and the woman’s touch in the fin de siècle city Oulton, C., (Nov 2015): Australian Victorian Studies Association. [Journal article]
• “see if I don’t you poor old book”: Repositioning the reader in Mary Cholmondeley’s diaries Oulton, C., (2015), Lifewriting Annual: Biographical and Autobiographical Studies. Brooklyn, New York: AMS Press, Inc. [Book chapter]
• ‘“No magic dwelling-place in magic story”: time, memory and the enchanted children of Dombey and Son’. Oulton, C., (2015), Dickens and the Imagined Child: Ashgate. [Book chapter]
• Dickens, letters and readers Oulton, C., Dickens Fellowship. [Lecture]
• Mary Cholmondeley Oulton, C., (2015), Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature: Wiley-Blackwell. [Book chapter]
• Sensations of loss: Eliza Lynn Linton’s Sowing the Wind Oulton, C., ICVWW Conference: Reassessing Women’s Writing of the 1860s and 1870s. [Conference paper]
• "I suppose we insensibly invented the rest": Adelaide Procter and the legend of the female poet Oulton, C., Reassessing Women’s Writing of the 1840s and 1850s. [Conference paper]
• "Your own feelings will enable you to imagine”: sustaining the Dickensian reader Oulton, C., BAVS conference 2014. [Conference paper]
• ‘”It is a pity but what bad men could be turned inside out sometimes”: Victorian Scandal on the Kent Coast‘ Oulton, C., Public lecture series. [Lecture]
• ‘Missed Vocation? The Failed Writer in Late Victorian Women’s Fiction.’ Oulton, C., International Conference on Women and Vocation. [Conference paper]
• Introduction Oulton, C., (19 Aug 2014), Three Men on the Bummel: Victorian Secrets. [Book chapter]
• Ouida and Victorian popular culture Oulton, C., (2014). [Journal article]
• "An exacting public": Jerome K. Jerome and the new humour Oulton, C., Victorian Comedy Conference. [Conference paper]
• "An immense quantity of clever and thoughtful rubbish"?: Twentieth century Victorians and the problem of history Oulton, C., (22 Jul 2013): Taylor & Francis. [Journal article]
• “Andromeda is having a rather bad time of it just now”: stories of sacrifice in Caird’s The Wing of Azrael. Oulton, C., (20 May 2013). [Journal article]
• Cruel cities in 'Geoffrey’s Wife’ and 'The Fawn Gloves' Oulton, C., The Victorian Tactile Imagination. [Conference paper]
• 'A misunderstood generation': Victorians and the Twentieth Century peepshow Oulton, C., Arts and Humanities Faculty Conference. [Conference paper]
• 'A rendezvous for literary London'. Jerome K. Jerome on the Strand Oulton, C., Strandlives: Strand Lives Day. [Conference paper]
• 'C. L. Pirkis (not “Miss”)’: public women, private lives, and the experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective Gavin, A., (2012), Writing Women of the Fin de Siècle: Authors of Change. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [Book chapter]
• 'Evil thought is a dangerous pet.' Jerome K. Jerome and the dark side of passion Oulton, C., British Association of Victorian Studies Conference 2012: Victorian Value: Ethics, Economics, Aesthetics. [Conference paper]
• 'lest I, too should remain chained here': Jerome K. Jerome’s London Oulton, C., Talk and Book Signing. [Lecture]
• 'Let him remember it in that room, years to come!’: myths of childhood and memory in Dombey and Son and The Haunted Man Oulton, C., Dickens and the Idea of 'the Dickensian': A Tale of Four Cities: A Bicentenary Traveling Conference. [Conference paper]
• ‘Shall memory be the only thing to die?' Fictions of childhood in Dickens and Jerome K. Jerome Oulton, C., (2012): AMS Press, Inc. [Journal article]
• Below the fairy city: a life of Jerome K. Jerome Oulton, C., (30 Sep 2012). Brighton: Victorian Secrets. [Book]
• Introduction Oulton, C., Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog: Victorian Secrets. [Book chapter]
• Jerome K. Jerome Oulton, C., International Centre for Victorian Women Writers Book of the Month series. [Lecture]
• Weeds: a story in seven chapters Jerome, J., Oulton, C., (31 Oct 2012), Edited collection of articles. Brighton: Victorian Secrets. [Book]
• 'a pot of ink that she would come to hate the smell of': banishing the beast in Jerome K. Jerome’s New Woman journalists Oulton, C., (2011): Berghahn Journals. [Journal article]
• ‘going on before me, an innocent romantic boy’: David Copperfield’s Canterbury tale Oulton, C., Dickens Fellowship 105th Annual Conference: Dickens and Kent. [Lecture]
• 'I am not by nature domestic': Mary Cholmondeley and the politics of home Oulton, C., (Nov 2011), Writing Women of the Fin de Siècle: Authors of Change, Dickens Fellowship Annual Conference: Palgrave Macmillan. [Book chapter]
• 'I had perpetrated a book': reading Victorian women writers in the 21st Century Oulton, C., Folkestone Book Festival. [Lecture]
• ‘now to the home of which you are the sunbeam': telling stories in The Wing of Azrael Oulton, C., Victorian Popular Fiction Association 3rd Annual Conference: Theme: Sex, Courtship and Marriage in Victorian Popular Fiction. [Conference paper]
• ‘She would write… in invisible ink.’ An introduction Oulton, C., (Nov 2011), Writing Women of the Fin de Siècle: Authors of Change, Dickens Fellowship Annual Conference: Palgrave Macmillan. [Book chapter]
• 'Trained to perfection in the lax morals and prurient literature of my day': the metafictional New Woman and her readers Oulton, C.. [Journal article]
• ‘you had an idea that we were rather frivolous': Jerome K. Jerome’s editorial strategies Oulton, C., RSVP Conference. [Conference paper]
• A child, a death and the making of the fairy tale woman Oulton, C.. Langley, Canada: BeWrite Books. [Book]
• Mary Cholmondeley, "Red Pottage". London: Pickering & Chatto. [Book]
• Ouida The Massarenes (1897) King, A., (2011), New Woman Fiction, 1881–1899. London: Pickering & Chatto. [Book chapter]
• Writing women of the fin de siècle: authors of change Gavin, A., Oulton, C., (Nov 2011). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [Book]
• 'I am not by nature domestic': Mary Cholmondeley and the politics of home Oulton, C., Women Writers of the Fin de Siècle International Conference. [Conference paper]
• 'Which he never meant to be published on any account': the hidden archive in David Copperfield and Paul Kelver Oulton, C., The British Comparative Literature Association XII International Conference: 'Archive'. [Conference paper]
• Child sacrifice and the crisis of gender in Mary Cholmondeley's major fiction Oulton, C.. [Journal article]
• New woman fiction 1881-1899: Pt.2: 4-6, (23 Sep 2010). London, UK: Pickering & Chatto. [Book]
• ''But why write them down[?]'': Mary Cholmondeley's diaries and the violation of the female artist Oulton, C., Victorian Popular Novelists' Conference. [Conference paper]
• ''Murderous impulse'': Children as victims of violance in Mary Cholmondeley's major fiction Oulton, C., Childhood in it's time: The Child in British Literature International Conference. [Conference paper]
• ''The bad women are better than the good ones'': the new woman and sexual fall in Cholmondeley's short fiction Oulton, C., (20 Sep 2009), Mary Cholmondeley Reconsidered. London, UK: Pickering & Chatto. [Book chapter]
• ''The shadow which I call pain'': Mary Cholmondeley and the dilemma of bodily weakness Oulton, C., (Dec 2009): Taylor & Francis. [Journal article]
• Introduction to 'Mary Cholmondeley reconsidered' Oulton, C., Schatz, S., Mary Cholmondeley Reconsidered. London: Pickering & Chatto. [Book chapter]
• Let the flowers go: a life of Mary Cholmondeley Oulton, C., (30 Jul 2009). London: Pickering & Chatto. [Book]
• Mary Cholmondeley reconsidered, (20 Sep 2009). London: Pickering & Chatto. [Book]
• Mary Cholmondeley, "Diana Tempest". Kansas City, Mo.: Valancourt Books. [Book]
• “ain’t goin’ to have any beastly Erickin'”: the problem of male friendship in Stalky & Co Oulton, C.. [Journal article]
• “What a comrade she would make”: the limits of romantic friendship in Jude the Obscure Oulton, C.. [Journal article]
• ‘ain’t goin’ to have any beastly Erickin’: the problem of male friendship in Stalky & Co Oulton, C., The Kipling Conference. [Conference paper]
• Romantic friendship in Victorian literature Oulton, C., (Jun 2007): Ashgate. [Book]
• ''Never be divided again'': Armadale and the threat to romantic friendship Oulton, C., (2005): The Wilkie Collins Society. [Journal article]
• 'My undisciplined heart': romantic friendship in David Copperfield Oulton, C., (Sep 2004). [Journal article]
• Literature and religion in mid-Victorian England: from Dickens to Eliot Oulton, C.. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [Book]
• 'The Good Angel of Our Lives': subversive religion in The Woman in White Oulton, C.. [Journal article]
• A vindication of religion: Wilkie Collins, Dickens and The Frozen Deep Oulton, C.. [Journal article]
• Left past the moon Oulton, C.: NPF Publications. [Book]
• Wilkie Collins: an interpretation of Christian belief Oulton, C.. [Journal article]