Carolyn Oulton

Carolyn Oulton is Professor of Victorian Literature and Director of the International Centre for Victorian Women Writers at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. She is the author of Literature and Religion in Mid-Victorian England: from Dickens to Eliot (Palgrave Macmillan 2003), Romantic Friendship in Victorian Literature (Ashgate 2007), Let the Flowers Go: A Life of Mary Cholmondeley (Pickering and Chatto 2009),Below the Fairy City: A Life of Jerome K. Jerome (Victorian Secrets 2012) and Dickens and the Myth of the Reader (Routledge 2016). Her most recent poetry collection is Accidental Fruit (Worple 2016). She is currently researching the reading culture and literary representation of seaside resorts 1840s-1930s.