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Dr Melanie Bigold
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BA Hons (Manitoba), MA (Toronto), DPhil (Oxford)
Darllenydd mewn Llenyddiaeth
Ysgol Saesneg, Cyfathrebu ac Athroniaeth
- Ar gael fel goruchwyliwr ôl-raddedig
Trosolwyg
My research centres around English Literature.
Additional publications
Monographs
Bigold, M. Women of Letters, Manuscript Circulation and Print Afterlives in the Eighteenth Century: Elizabeth Rowe, Catharine Cockburn and Elizabeth Carter (Palgrave, 2012).
Refereed Journal Articles
Bigold, M. ‘George Ballard’s Memoirs of Several Ladies and “bookmaking out of the remains of the dead”,’ (forthcoming Eighteenth-Century Life)
Bigold, M. ‘Elizabeth Rowe’s Fictional and Familiar Letters: Exemplarity, Enthusiasm and the Production of Posthumous Meaning,’ British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 29/1 (2006): 1-14.
Book Chapters
Bigold, M. ‘Letters and learning’ in Ros Ballaster (ed.), A History of British Women’s Writing: Volume 4, 1690-1750 (Palgrave, 2010).
Bigold, M. Editor and transcriber, ‘The Journals of John Ramsay,’ The Slave Trade Debate: contemporary writings for and against. Introduced by John Pinfold (Bodleian Library Books, 2007).
Online articles and databases
Bigold, M. ‘“Theatre of the book”: marginalia and mise en page in the Cardiff Rare Books Restoration Drama Collection’ (December 2013, Cardiff Book History Blog)
Bigold, M. ‘Database on Marginalia in the Restoration Drama Texts in the Cardiff Rare Books Restoration Drama Collection’ Collection’ (December 2013, Cardiff Book History Blog)
Cyhoeddiad
2022
- Bigold, M. 2022. Sex education, songs, and spiritual guidance: an eighteenth-century servants' library. The Library 23(3), pp. 301-322. (10.1093/library/fpac033)
- Bigold, M. 2022. Women's book ownership in Wales, c.1770-1830: The Ladies of Llangollen, Hester Thrale Piozzi and Elizabeth Greenly. The Welsh History Review 31(1), pp. 126-149. (10.16922/whr.31.1.6)
2021
- Bigold, M. 2021. Women's book collecting in the eighteenth century: the libraries of the Countess of Hertford and the Duchess of Northumberland. Huntington Library Quarterly 84(1), pp. 139-150. (10.1353/hlq.2021.0015)
2019
- Bigold, M. 2019. Self-fashioning and poetic voice: Elizabeth Singer Rowe's authorial prerogative. Review of English Studies 70(293), pp. 74-94. (10.1093/res/hgy076)
2016
- Bigold, M. 2016. English ballet: a national art for the new Elizabethan moment. In: Morra, I. and Gossedge, R. eds. The New Elizabethan Age: Culture, Society and National Identity after WWII. International Library of Twentieth Century History London and New York: I.B. Tauris
2014
- Bigold, M. 2014. "Bookmaking out of the remains of the dead": George Ballard's Memoirs of Several Ladies (1752). Eighteenth-Century Life 38(2), pp. 28-46. (10.1215/00982601-2645927)
2013
- Bigold, M. 2013. "The theatre of the book": marginalia and "mise en page" in the Cardiff Rare Books Restoration Drama Collection. [Online]. Occasional Papers Vol. 1. Cardiff: Centre for Editorial & Intertextual Research, Cardiff University. Available at: http://cardiffbookhistory.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/bigold.pdf
- Bigold, M. 2013. Women of letters, manuscript circulation, and print afterlives in the Eighteenth Century: Elizabeth Rowe, Catharine Cockburn and Elizabeth Carter. Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Bigold, M. 2013. Collecting, cataloguing and losing women writers: George Ballard's 'Memoirs of Several Ladies'. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
2010
- Bigold, M. 2010. Letters and learning. In: Ballaster, R. ed. A History of British Women's Writing: 1690-1750., Vol. 4. Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 173-186.
2006
- Bigold, M. 2006. Elizabeth Rowe's fictional and familiar letters: Exemplary enthusiasm and the production of posthumous thinking. British Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies 29(1), pp. 1-14. (10.1111/j.1754-0208.2006.tb00631.x)
Adrannau llyfrau
- Bigold, M. 2016. English ballet: a national art for the new Elizabethan moment. In: Morra, I. and Gossedge, R. eds. The New Elizabethan Age: Culture, Society and National Identity after WWII. International Library of Twentieth Century History London and New York: I.B. Tauris
- Bigold, M. 2010. Letters and learning. In: Ballaster, R. ed. A History of British Women's Writing: 1690-1750., Vol. 4. Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 173-186.
Erthyglau
- Bigold, M. 2022. Sex education, songs, and spiritual guidance: an eighteenth-century servants' library. The Library 23(3), pp. 301-322. (10.1093/library/fpac033)
- Bigold, M. 2022. Women's book ownership in Wales, c.1770-1830: The Ladies of Llangollen, Hester Thrale Piozzi and Elizabeth Greenly. The Welsh History Review 31(1), pp. 126-149. (10.16922/whr.31.1.6)
- Bigold, M. 2021. Women's book collecting in the eighteenth century: the libraries of the Countess of Hertford and the Duchess of Northumberland. Huntington Library Quarterly 84(1), pp. 139-150. (10.1353/hlq.2021.0015)
- Bigold, M. 2019. Self-fashioning and poetic voice: Elizabeth Singer Rowe's authorial prerogative. Review of English Studies 70(293), pp. 74-94. (10.1093/res/hgy076)
- Bigold, M. 2014. "Bookmaking out of the remains of the dead": George Ballard's Memoirs of Several Ladies (1752). Eighteenth-Century Life 38(2), pp. 28-46. (10.1215/00982601-2645927)
- Bigold, M. 2006. Elizabeth Rowe's fictional and familiar letters: Exemplary enthusiasm and the production of posthumous thinking. British Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies 29(1), pp. 1-14. (10.1111/j.1754-0208.2006.tb00631.x)
Gwefannau
- Bigold, M. 2013. "The theatre of the book": marginalia and "mise en page" in the Cardiff Rare Books Restoration Drama Collection. [Online]. Occasional Papers Vol. 1. Cardiff: Centre for Editorial & Intertextual Research, Cardiff University. Available at: http://cardiffbookhistory.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/bigold.pdf
Llyfrau
- Bigold, M. 2013. Women of letters, manuscript circulation, and print afterlives in the Eighteenth Century: Elizabeth Rowe, Catharine Cockburn and Elizabeth Carter. Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Monograffau
- Bigold, M. 2013. Collecting, cataloguing and losing women writers: George Ballard's 'Memoirs of Several Ladies'. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
Ymchwil
I am currently working on a joint biography of George Ballard and Elizabeth Elstob, as well as leading a project on marginalia and provenance in the Cardiff Rare Books collection. Updates on cataloguing as well as blog posts on projects related to the rare books can be found on the Cardiff Book History and Special Collections and Archives blogs
I also co-founded and co-convene the interdisciplinary Families, Identities, and Gender Research Network (FIG).
Research interests
I would welcome enquiries from potential graduates who would like to pursue research in the areas of
- history of the book;
- manuscript culture;
- women's writing and women's literary history;
- philosophy, religion and literature in the long eighteenth century;
- life-writing.
Addysgu
I have held lecturing posts at St. Anne's and Jesus Colleges (Oxford) and the University of Toronto. At Cardiff, I currently offer a number of modules in literature of the long eighteenth century. I also offer an MA in Life-writing.
Bywgraffiad
I completed my doctoral studies at the University of Oxford in July 2007.
During 2007-08, I was awarded a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship based at the University of Toronto, and was also a Plumer Visiting Fellow at St. Anne's College (Oxford).
I joined Cardiff University in Autumn 2008.
Meysydd goruchwyliaeth
I welcome enquiries from potential graduates who would like to pursue research in the following areas:
- history of the book;
- reading and reception studies;
- manuscript culture (including marginalia and epistolary studies);
- women's writing and women's literary history;
- philosophy, religion and literature in the long eighteenth century;
- life-writing:
- dramatic literature, dance, and performance studies;
My primary expertise are in the period 1600-1800, but I also welcome enquiries from students with an interest in all periods of drama, dance, and historical performance studies.
Contact Details
+44 29208 75409
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