Julia Swindells

Standard Name: Swindells, Julia

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Beverley
Before her first publication EB had married a Mr R. Beverley, who was said to be the proprietor or lessee of the Bath and Bristol theatres.
“Reverse of Fortune”. The Guardian and Public Ledger, 22 Nov. 1832.
But neither Beverley appears by name in Julia Swindells
Publishing Leah Sumbel
The dedication was ironical: her daughters' children were living as members of the upper class, and had no contact with her; she blamed her brother-in-law for the financial predicament which was driving her to publish...
Reception Hannah Cullwick
Because of their conditions of production there is considerable controversy over how far to consider the diaries an authentic evocation of HC 's subjectivity. At one extreme is Swindells , who asks whose story the...
Textual Features Hannah Cullwick
In addition to the repetition endemic to domestic labour, HC 's diaries are structured in many ways around a series of contradications and obsessions, both circumstantial and cultural. A central contradiction in her circumstances is...

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Texts

Ridgers, Brian. “’What I Earnestly Longed For . . .’: Elizabeth Missing Sewell, Writing, Autobiography and Victorian Womanhood”. The Uses of Autobiography, edited by Julia Swindells, Taylor and Francis, 1995, pp. 138-50.
Swindells, Julia. “Coming Home to Heaven: Manpower and Myth in 1944 Britain”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
4
, No. 2, 1995, pp. 223-34.
Swindells, Julia. “Liberating the Subject? Autobiography and "Womens History": A Reading of The Diaries of Hannah CullwickInterpreting Womens Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives, edited by Personal Narratives Group, Indiana University Press, 1989, pp. 24-38.
Swindells, Julia. “Other Peoples Truths? Scientific Subjects in the Personal Recollections, From Early Life to Old Age, of Mary SomervilleWomens Lives into Print, edited by Pauline Polkey, Macmillan, 1999, pp. 96-108.