Publications

2013  Ouida and Victorian Popular Culture (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), ed. Jane Jordan and Andrew King. ‘Between Men: Romantic Friendship in Ouida’s Early Sensation Fiction’, pp. 52-69; Appendix III, an annotated bibliography of Victorian theatrical adaptations of Ouida’s novels (pp.193-214). ISBN 978-1-4094-0589-4 

2009  Life Writing: The Spirit of the Age and The State of the Art, ed. Meg Jensen and Jane Jordan (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009). ‘“Everything is TRUE as solemnly as I can declare it”: The Case of Ouida and her Biographers’ (pp. 183-194). ISBN 978-1-4438-0526-1 

2007  Paperback edition of Josephine Butler(London: Continuum, May 2007), 384pp. ISBN 978-1-84725-045-2

2005  Kitty O’Shea; An Irish Affair(Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2005), 288pp. ISBN 0-7509-3342-9. A biography of the mistress of Charles Stewart Parnell, who acted as his intermediary with the British Government, and whose notorious divorce in 1890 had disastrous consequences for the Irish Home Rule movement.

2003  Josephine Butler and the Prostitution Campaigns: Diseases of the Body Politic, 5 vols, ed. Jane Jordan and Ingrid Sharp (London: Routledge, 2003), 2000pp. ISBN 0-415-22684-5. A collection which reproduces out-of-print articles and books by Butler, as well as unpublished speeches and letters. General Introduction (pp. 1-16), and introductions to Vols 2, 3 and 4.

2001 Josephine Butler (London: John Murray), pp.368. ISBN 0-7195-5584-1. A biography of the Victorian social reformer who led campaigns to repeal the Contagious Diseases Acts (1886) and to raise the age of consent for girls (the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885).

2026  ‘The rise and rise of the stage vivandière: British and American theatrical adaptations of Ouida’s Under Two Flags (1867)’, in Ouida in Context: Cosmopolitan Ethics and Aesthetics, ed. Helena K Esser and Frankie Dytor (Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 2026) (forthcoming)

2017  ‘Writing for the Masses: Ouida and Newspaper Syndication’, in British Women’s Writing From Bronte to Bloomsbury, Vol 3: 1880s & 1890s, ed. Adrienne E Gavin and Carolyn W de la L Oulton (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). ISBN 978-3-031-57287-6  

Entries on ‘Guy Livingstone’, ‘Ouida’, ‘Trilby’ and ‘Victorian Popular Fiction Association’, in Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction, ed. Kevin A.Morrison (Jefferson NC: McFarland & Co Inc Publishers, 2017), 318pp. ISBN 978-1-4766-6903-8

2016  ‘Prostitution and the Contagious Diseases Acts’, Routledge Historical Resources: The 

History of Feminism (3,500-word introduction)

https://www.routledgehistoricalresources.com/feminism/essays/prostitution-and-the-contagious-diseases-acts

‘The Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts’ in Campaigning for Change:

Lessons from History (impact study) issued by Friends of the Earth in collaboration with History & Policy, pp. 67-78; also accessible at:

https://www.foe.co.uk/blog/campaigning-change-can-we-learn-from-history

2014  ‘“Literature at Nurse”: George Moore, Ouida and Fin-de-Siècle Literary

Censorship’, in George Moore: Influence and Collaboration, ed. Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2014), pp. 69-81. ISBN  978-1-61149-432-7

‘“Romans Français Écrits En Anglais”: Ouida, the Sensation Novel and Fin-De-SiècleLiterary Censorship, in Beyond Braddon: Forgotten Female Sensationalists, ed. Anne-Marie Beller and Tara MacDonald (London: Routledge, 2014), pp.102-117.  ISBN 978-0-415-74579-6

2011  ‘Ouida: How the conception of the popular reader contributed to the making of a Victorian Popular Novelist’, in Return to the Common Reader, ed. Adelene Buckland and Beth Palmer (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), pp. 37-54. ISBN 978-1-4094-0027-1

 ‘Ouida’ (pp. 220-231) and ‘The Law and Sensation’ (pp. 507-515) in Companion to Sensation Fiction, ed. by Pamela K Gilbert (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). ISBN 978-1-4051-9558-4

2009  ‘The Peasant and the Picturesque in Ouida’s Italy’, in The Victorians and Italy, ed. Luisa Villa, Paul Vita and Alessandro Vescovi (Milan: Polimetrica, 2009), pp. 61-79. ISBN 978-88-8699-163-9 

2007  ‘Josephine Butler and The Moral Reclaimability of Prostitutes’, in Josephine Butler in Modern Babylon, ed. Alison Milbank (Winchester: George Mann Publishing, May 2007), pp.12-33. ISBN 978-0-95524-154-3

2006  ‘The English Delilah: Katharine O’Shea and Irish Politics 1882-1891’, in Politics and Power in Victorian Ireland, ed. Roger Swift and Christine Kinealy (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006), pp.69-83. ISBN 978-1-85182-996-5 

2006  ‘“Trophies of the Saviour”: Josephine Butler’s Biographical Sketches of Prostitutes’, in Sex, Gender and Religion: Josephine Butler’s Legacy, ed. Jenny Daggers and Diana Neale (Maryland: Peter Lang, 2006), pp.21-36. ISBN 0-8204-8117-3

2012  ‘“Our Modern Code of Morals”: Public Responses to the 1890 Parnell-O’Shea Divorce Case’, in a special edition of Victorian Review on ‘Religion and Sexuality’, ed. Naomi Hetherington and Joy Dixon, 37.2 (Fall 2011) 75-87

2011  Review of The Captain and the King: William O’Shea, Parnell and Late Victorian England by Myles Dungan in Victorian Studies, 54.1 (Fall, 2011)

2009  Review of Ouida the Phenomenon: Evolving Social, Political and Gender Concerns in her Fiction, by Natalie Schroeder and Shari Hodges Holt (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008) for Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, 28.2, 384-5

2008  ‘The English George Sand? Ouida, the French Novel and late Victorian Literary Censorship’, in a special edition of Anglistica Pisana, Vol VI: i, ed. Mara Barbuni, Mario Curreli and Frano Marucci (conference proceedings of the Ouida in Exile Conference at the Biblioteca di Bagni di Lucca, 30-31 August 2008) 107-116