Fiona Snailham

Fiona Snailham
University of Greenwich

Fiona Snailham is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Greenwich. Her doctoral thesis, completed in 2020, explored concepts of ‘progress’ in the work of Eliza Lynn Linton. Since completing her PhD, receipt of a Research Scholarship from Gladstone’s Library and a Research Funding Award from the British Association of Victorian Studies has enabled her to expand her research into Linton’s social networks. Her forthcoming monograph on Eliza Lynn Linton will form part of the Key Popular Women Writers series published by Edward Everett Root. Having recently contributed an article on the mid-nineteenth century ghost story to Women’s Writing, Fiona’s current project examines intersections between Christianity and spiritualism in Victorian periodicals.

At her first conference as a doctoral student, Fiona felt warmly welcomed by RSVP members and would like to contribute to the work of the Society as a means of repaying some of that debt. Fiona believes that the experience gained in her current post as Treasurer for the Victorian Popular Fiction Association, combined with skills honed in her former role as a School Governor, could prove useful to the work of the Board. She is eager to offer her service to a society which provides invaluable support to scholars working on nineteenth-century periodicals. Still at the start of her own academic journey, she is particularly keen to represent the interests of early career and contingent scholars.