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Dr Leigh Wetherall Dickson

Associate Professor

Department: Humanities

ADSS Leighwetheralldickson Staffprofile 255My first degree was a BA in English Studies at Sheffield Hallam, followed by a PhD. In December 2006 I first joined Northumbria as the Leverhulme Research Associate for the three-year project 'Before Depression: Representation and Culture of the English Malady, 1660-1800', and have since become a full-time lecturer in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century English Literature at Northumbria.

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Office: Lipman 403



  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • The Paper Age: Jane Austen, Fashion and Finance, Wetherall Dickson, L. 1 May 2024, Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press
  • Lady Caroline Lamb nee Ponsonby (1785-1828), Wetherall Dickson, L. 30 Dec 2022, The Routledge Companion to Women Writers, London, Taylor & Francis
  • Speculation, Suicide, and the Silver Fork Novel, Wetherall Dickson, L. 13 Feb 2020, In: Studies in the Literary Imagination
  • 'Only Four Months a Widow': The Softened Colours of Lady Susan's Wardrobe in Whit Stillman's 'Love and Friendship' (2016), Wetherall Dickson, L. Oct 2018, After Austen, Palgrave Macmillan
  • Syphilis and Sociability: The Impolite Bodies of James Boswell and Sylas Neville, Wetherall Dickson, L. 30 Apr 2018, The Male Body in Medicine and Literature, Liverpool University Press
  • “A written monologue by that most interesting being, myself”: Sickness, Suicide, and Self-Reflection in the Diary of Alice James, Wetherall Dickson, L. 25 Sep 2016, In: Studies in the Literary Imagination
  • Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Ingram, A., Wetherall Dickson, L. 28 Sep 2016
  • Fashion Victim: High Society, Sociability and Suicide in Georgiana Cavendish’s The Sylph, Dickson, L. 28 Sep 2016, Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Palgrave Macmillan
  • Lisa M. Hermsen, 'Manic Minds: Mania's Mad History and its Neuro-Future', Wetherall Dickson, L. Mar 2015, In: History of Psychiatry
  • Representing and expressing states of mind: "The labyrinth of another's being", Ingram, A., O'Connell, A., Wetherall-Dickson, L. 1 Mar 2015, In: Studies in the Literary Imagination

  • Bethany Brigham Reforming the Anatomy Narrative: Popular Medico-Gothic Interventions, c.1790-1850 Start Date: 01/10/2019 End Date: 30/01/2024
  • Joanne Edwards Recontextualising 'The Gay Delavals': Women's Lives and Family Narratives at the National Trust's Seaton Delaval Hall Start Date: 28/02/2024

  • English PhD September 01 1999
  • English BA (Hons) September 01 1996


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