Alexis McQuigge

I focus primarily on women’s writing by lesser-known English novelists, especially Eliza Haywood and Penelope Aubin.  

My research includes work on female travellers (especially female castaways), women held in captivity (both in England and abroad), and on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters. 

A new project is going to focus on domestic neglect in the eighteenth century, and the ways in which the lack of a genuine caretaker disrupts the course of young women’s lives in English literature.

An ongoing side project involves an exploration of themes of monstrosity and the way it relates to female transgression in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.