Caroline Franklin works on Romantic and eighteenth-century literature, with particular interests in gender and politics, print culture and the material business of writing and relationships between Romanticism and nationalism. She has published on Byron, Scott, Wollstonecraft, Madame de Staël, Jane Austen, Helen Maria Williams and others, and edited several reprint editions of women’s writing.

Publications

Caroline Franklin is author of Byron's Heroines (1992) which was awarded the Rose Mary Crawshay prize by British Academy 1995, and the 1993 Elma Dangerfield Prize by the International Byron Society; Byron: A Literary Life (2000), Mary Wollstonecraft: A Literary Life (2004), and co-editor with E. J. Clery and Peter Garside of Authorship, Commerce and the Public: Scenes of Writing 1750-1850 (2002). She has edited several reprint series of rare texts by women writers, most recently: Harriet Martineau, Illustrations of Political Economy, Taxtation, Poor Laws and Paupers (2001). She gave the the 2001 University of Nottingham Foundation Lecture on 'Byron and Women Novelists'; and was a plenary speaker at a 2003 conference on ‘Italian Literature and British Romanticism’ at the University of Parma, Italy. In 2006 was a plenary speaker at  conferences in Jadavpur University, Kolkata and Benares Hindu University. She is Assistant Editor of Women's Writing, and she regularly contributes to conferences and journals on eighteenth and nineteenth century literature and culture. Her essays may also be found in books, such as Nigel Wood (ed.), Don Juan (1993): Peter Kitson and Tim Fulford (eds), Romanticism and Colonialism: Writing and Empire 1780-1830 (1998); Robert F. Gleckner and Bernard Beatty (eds), The Plays of Lord Byron: Critical Essays (1997); Jane Stabler (ed), Byron (1998); Gerald Carruthers and Alan Rawes (eds.), English Romanticism and the Celtic World (2003) and Sarah Knott and Barbara Taylor (eds), Women, Gender and Enlightenment (2005).

AUTHORED BOOKS/ MONOGRAPHS

1. Byron's Heroines. Oxford University Press, 1992. Jointly awarded Rose Mary Crawshay prize by British Academy 1995, and awarded Elma Dangerfield Prize by International Byron Society 1993. ISBN 0198112300.

2. Byron: A Literary Life. Macmillan, 2000. ISBN 0333676637. Choice 'outstanding title'.

3. Byron and Women Novelists, the 2001 University of Nottingham Foundation Lecture, Univ. of Nottingham Press 2002. ISBN 0-85358 103 7.

4. Mary Wollstonecraft: A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. ISBN 033397252X

5. Byron. London: Routledge, 2007. ISBN 0415268567

EDITIONS

1. British Women Novelists 1750-1850. Caroline Franklin and Peter Garside (eds), 12 vols. London, Routledge/ Thoemmes, 1992. ISBN 0415081033

2. The Romantics: Women Novelists. Caroline Franklin and Peter Garside (eds). 12 vols. London, Routledge/ Thoemmes, 1995. ISBN 0415113512..

3. The Romantics: Women Poets 1770-1830, selected and introduced by Caroline Franklin. 12 vols. Routledge/ Thoemmes Press, London, 1996. ISBN 0 415 13266 5.

4. The Wellesley Series IV. Nineteenth-Century Sources in the Humanities and Social Sciences: British Romantic Poets, edited and introduced by Caroline Franklin. 6 vols. Routledge/ Thoemmes press, London and Tokyo, 1998. ISBN 0 415 13745 4.

5. Harriet Martineau, Illustrations of Political Economy, Taxation, Poor Laws and Paupers. Ed. Caroline Franklin. 13 vols. Thoemmes Press/ Kyokuto Shoten Ltd, 2001. ISBN 1 85506 903 2

6. Women’s Travel Writing 1750-1850. 5 vols. London: Routledge, 2006. ISBN 0415320348

SCHOLARLY ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS

1.  ‘”The colour of a riband”: Patriotism, history and the role of women in Helen Maria Williams’s Sketches of Manners and Opinions in the French Republic (1801)’, Women’s Writing 13:3 (Oct 2006), 495-08.

2.  '”Quiet Cruising o'er the Ocean Woman”: Byron's Don Juan and the Woman Question, Studies in Romanticism, 29: 4 (Winter; 1990), 603-31. Reprinted in Longman reader. See below.

3. Haidee and Neuha: Byron's Heroines of the South, The Byron Journal, 18 (1990), 37-49

4. '”At Once Above ? Beneath Her Sex”: The Heroine in Regency Verse Romance, The Modern Language Review,  84: 2 (Apr.,1989), 273-288.

5. The Influence of Madame de Stael's Account of Goethe's Die Braut von Korinth in De 'Allemagne on the Heroine of Byron's Siege of Corinth, Notes and Queries,  35: 233 (Sept. 1988), 307-310

6. Feud and Faction in The Bride of Lammermoor, Scottish Literary Journal,  14: 2 (Nov. 1987), 18-31.

EDITED CRITICISM

1. Guest editor of special issue of Women's Writing on the Romantic period, vol.7:1, Summer 2000. Introduction and review essay.

2. Authorship, Commerce and the Public: Scenes of Writing 1750-1850, ed. E. J. Clery, Caroline Franklin and Peter Garside (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002). 0 333 96455 1

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

1. 'Juan's Sea Changes: Class, race and gender in Byron's Don Juan' in Nigel Wood (ed.), Don Juan, Theory in Practice Series, London: Open University Press, 1993. ISBN 0 335 09625 5. Pp.56-89.

2. 'Cosmopolitan masculinity and the British female reader of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage', in Richard A. Cardwell (ed.), Lord Byron the European: Essays from the International Byron Society, British Literature volume 31. Lewiston, Queenston and Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 1997. ISBN 0 7734 8593 7. Pp. 105-126.

3. 'The Stoical heroines of the political plays: Marina', in Robert F. Gleckner and Bernard Beatty (eds), The Plays of Lord Byron: Critical Essays. English Texts and Studies Series, No. 29. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1997. ISBN 0 85323 891 x.

4. 'Some samples of the finest of the finest Orientalism: Byronic Philhellenism and Proto-Zionism at the time of the Congress of Vienna', in Peter Kitson and Tim Fulford (eds.), Romanticism and Colonialism: Writing and Empire 1780-1830, pp.221-242. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN 0 521 59143 0.

5. 'Quiet cruising over the ocean woman: Byron's Don Juan and the woman question', in Jane Stabler (ed.), Byron. London: Longman Critical Reader series,1998. Pp.79-93.

6. 'An English Bard Goes East: Authorship and Authority in Byron's Early Poetry', in Martin Prochazka (ed.),  Byron: East and West. Proceedings of the 24th International Byron Conference. Prague: Charles University Press, 2000.

7. 'The Welsh American dream: Iolo Morganwg, Robert Southey and the Madoc legend', in Gerard Carruthers and Alan Rawes (eds), English Romanticism and the Celtic World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 69-102. RoN review

8. ‘Romantic patriotism as feminist critique of empire: Helen Maria Williams, Sydney Owenson and Germaine de Staël’ in Sarah Knott and Barbara Taylor (eds), Women, Gender and Enlightenment. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.Gender and History review  

9. ‘Cosmopolitanism and Catholic culture: Byron, Italian poetry and The Liberal’, in British Romanticism and Italian Literature, ed. Diego Saglia and Laura Bandiera,  Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2005. Pp.255-68.

10. ‘“Pitying man’s decline”: Stowe and the Byronic heroine in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The Minister’s Wooing and Oldtown Folks’, in Transatlantic Stowe: Harriet Beecher Stowe and European Culture, ed. Denise Kohn, Emily Todd and Sarah Meer. Iowa City: University  of Iowa Press, 2006, pp.3-23.

 

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH

1. 15 entries on early nineteenth-century novelists for the third edition of the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, vol. iv (1800-1900), ed. Joanne Shattock, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0521 39100 8. These are: Anna Maria Bennett, Miss Byron, Catherine Cuthbertson, Jane Harvey, Ann Hatton, R.C. Dallas, Isabella Kelly, Caroline Lamb, Sophia Lee, Harriet Lee, Eliza Parsons, John Polidori, Anna Maria and Jane Porter, Mary Ann Radcliffe.

2.. Entry on Mary Wollstonecraft for Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century British Philosophers, ed. John Valdimir Price. Bristol: Thommes Press, 1999. ISBN 1 85506 1236.

3. Supervising editor (literature) and contributor of article on Byron for the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Philosophers. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2002. ISBN 1855069555

4. ‘Lady Caroline Lamb’, in New Dictionary of National Biography, (Associate Editor: Everest, K), Oxford, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004.

5. 'Feminism 1890-1940'. 3,000 word entry in Encyclopaedia of Literary Modernism, ed. Paul Poplawski, Westport, Greenwood Press, 2003. pp.106-10. ISBN 0 313 3107 3.

REVIEWS

Audrey A. Fisch, Anne K. Mellor and Esther H. Schor (eds), T he Other Mary Shelley: Beyond Frankenstein (Oxford University Press, 1993). Byron Journal 23 (1995), 104-5.

Richard Greene, Mary Leapor: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Women's Poetry (Oxford University press, 1993). British Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies 18:2 (Autumn, 1995), 215-6.

Edward Copeland, Women Writing about Money: Women's Fiction in England 1790-1820 (Cambridge University Press, 1995). British Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies 20:2 (Autumn, 1997) 215-6.

Warren Stevenson, Romanticism and the Androgynous Sublime (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press), and Andrea K. Henderson, Romantic Identities: Varieties of Subjectivity 1774-1830 (Cambridge University press, 1996). Byron Journal 25 1997.

Menna Gallie, Travels with a Duchess and Renée Smith, Zée, Honno, 1996. Book News in Wales, Spring 1997.

Moyra Haslett, Byron's Don Juan and the Don Juan Legend (Oxford University Press). Times Literary Supplement. December 5, 1997.

Mary Waldron, Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806 (University of Georgia Press). Women's Writing 4:2 (1997), pp.298-301. ISSN 0969 9082

Phyllis Grosskirth, The Flawed Angel. On BBC Radio 3's Nightwaves, Feb 13, 1997.

William Rowland Jr., Literature and the Marketplace: Romantic Writers and their Audiences in Great Britain and the United States (University of Nebraska Press, 1997). Byron Journal 26 (1998), 137-9.

Catherine B. Burroughs, Closet Stages: Joanna Baillie and the Theater Theory of British Romantic Women Writers (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997). Byron Journal 27 (1999). Pp.113-4).

Harriet Devine Jump, Women's Writing of the Romantic Period, 1789-1836: An Anthology (Edinburgh University Press, 1997), and Dianne Long Hoeveler, Gothic Feminism: the Professionalization of Gender form Charlotte Smith to the Brontës (Liverpool University Press, 1998), Byron Journal 28 (2000), 122-4.

Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain (eds), Women's Poetry in the Enlightenment: the Making of a Canon 1730-1820 (Macmillan, 1999); Paula R. Feldman and Theresa M. Kelley (eds), Romantic Women Writers: Voices and Countervoices (University Press of New England, 1995); Carol Shiner Wilson and Joel Haefner (eds), Re-visioning Romanticism: British Women Writers 1776-1837 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994); and Jonathan Wordsworth (ed), The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age (Woodstock Books, 1997). Women's Writing 7:1 (2000), 119-123.

Susan Wolfson, Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism (Stanford University Press, 1997). English 50:198 (Autumn, 2001) 273-6.

Helen M. Buss, D.L. Macdonald and Anne MsWhir (eds), Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Writing Lives (Wilfrid Laurier University press, 2001). Keats-Shelley Journal 2002. Paul Elledge, Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speaking Out, Talking back, Acting Up, Bowing Out (John Hopkins University Press, 2000) and Alan Rawes, Byron's Poetic Experimentation: Childe Harold, the Tales and the Quest for Comedy (Ashgate, 2000). In Notes and Queries, 247 [N.S. 49], No.4 (Dec 2002), 537-40.

William Godwin, Memoirs of an author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman, ed. Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria (Broadview Press, 2001). In British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Forthcoming.

Barbara Taylor, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). Times Literary
Supplement October 24th, 2003. p.30.

Maria Frawley, Invalidism and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain University of Chicago Press. Times Literary Supplement 29^th October, 2004.

The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley, (ed Schor, E), 2003, in The Times Literary Supplement, 7 May, 2004, p.26

 Fiona MacCarthy, Byron: Life and Legend, 2002, Jane Stabler, Byron, Poetics and History, 2002, Stephen Cheeke, Byron and Place: History, Translation, Nostalgia, 2003, in BARS Bulletin and Review, 25, 2004, 37-40.

Administrative Duties

School of Arts Research Committee (Deputy Chair)

School of Arts Management Board

Departmental Research Committee (Chair)

Staff-Student Consultative Committee

Convenor EN-389 Revolution, Romanticism and Realism

Single Honours Schemes Coordinator

Research students

She would welcome research students wanting to work on Romantic-period authors as well as topics including Gothic, travel writing, children’s literature, periodicals and life writing. She currently supervises three doctoral  students researching  in the Romantic period. Doctoral and M.Phil theses on which she has been invited to act as examiner have specialized in Byron, William Blake, Jane Austen, Mary Tighe, and the representation of Italy by Romantic-period women writers.