The Writers of Wales Database

COX, JESSICA

Jessica Cox is a Lecturer at the University of Wales, Lampeter. Her research interests include Victorian sensation literature (particularly the work of Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins), the Brontës, New Woman Fiction, the neo-Victorian novel and film adaptation. She is particularly interested in gender approaches to literature, and the impact of first-wave feminism upon the Victorian novel. Jessica has been published in various journals including Philological Quarterly, Wilkie Collins’ Society Journal and the Journal of Gender Studies. She has also written reviews for Modern Language Review, Women’s Writing and the Archives of Sexual Behaviour. Jessica is currently in the process of editing two proposed collections on Mary Braddon.

Selected Publications:
Brief Lives: Charlotte Bronte (Hesperus Press, 2009)

Contributed to:
Shirley by Charlotte Brontë (editor and contributor) (Penguin Classics, 2006)
Wilkie Collins: Interdisciplinary Essays (contributor) (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007)
Women and Belief: 1852-1928 (History of Feminism) (co-editor) (Routledge, 2010)