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Sally Shuttleworth
Professor Sally Shuttleworth is a Senior Research Fellow in the English Faculty at the University of Oxford. She has written extensively on literature, science and medicine in the nineteenth century. Books include Charlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology; The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science and Medicine, 1840-1900, and, most recently, the co-authored Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain. She currently completing a book on Victorian Travel for Health.
Courses
Illness loomed large in the Victorian period, and in this day school leading scholars on the topic will introduce you to important ways in which it was a central preoccupation of Victorian literature.