Dr Louise Wenman-James
Academic and research departments
Literature and Languages, Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences.About
My research project
Women of The Yellow Book: Decadence and Identity in Fin-De-Siècle Women’s WritingMy project explores how professional, gender, and sexual identities are explored in the work of women writers who contributed to the quarterly periodical The Yellow Book in the 1890s. I focus primarily on the work of Olive Custance, Ella D'Arcy, Ada Leverson, and Vernon Lee.
Supervisors
My project explores how professional, gender, and sexual identities are explored in the work of women writers who contributed to the quarterly periodical The Yellow Book in the 1890s. I focus primarily on the work of Olive Custance, Ella D'Arcy, Ada Leverson, and Vernon Lee.
Publications
In Spring 2022, the British Association of Decadence Studies together with the University of Surrey hosted a series of Jeudis talks on women whose work intersected with the iconic fin-de-siècle quarterly periodical The Yellow Book (1894-1897). Although many women of The Yellow Book are gradually receiving increasing critical attention, these seminars provided the first opportunity for a multidisciplinary discussion of the lives and works of women who contributed in various ways to the periodical. The Jeudis sessions encouraged a consideration of the connections and dialogues between these women, drawing out their networks and communities, and exploring how The Yellow Book represented a cornerstone of their careers.