'Trained to perfection in the lax morals and prurient literature of my day': the metafictional New Woman and her readers

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Oulton, C. 2011. 'Trained to perfection in the lax morals and prurient literature of my day': the metafictional New Woman and her readers. The Latchkey. 2 (2).
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Oulton, C. 2009. ''Murderous impulse'': Children as victims of violance in Mary Cholmondeley's major fiction.
'Which he never meant to be published on any account': the hidden archive in David Copperfield and Paul Kelver
Oulton, C. 2010. 'Which he never meant to be published on any account': the hidden archive in David Copperfield and Paul Kelver.
'I am not by nature domestic': Mary Cholmondeley and the politics of home
Oulton, C. 2010. 'I am not by nature domestic': Mary Cholmondeley and the politics of home.
'My undisciplined heart': romantic friendship in David Copperfield
Oulton, C. 2004. 'My undisciplined heart': romantic friendship in David Copperfield. Dickens Quarterly. 21 (3), pp. 157-169.
''Never be divided again'': Armadale and the threat to romantic friendship
Oulton, C. 2005. ''Never be divided again'': Armadale and the threat to romantic friendship. Wilkie Collins Society Journal. 7, pp. 31-40.
Let the flowers go: a life of Mary Cholmondeley
Oulton, C. 2009. Let the flowers go: a life of Mary Cholmondeley. London Pickering & Chatto.
Child sacrifice and the crisis of gender in Mary Cholmondeley's major fiction
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''The shadow which I call pain'': Mary Cholmondeley and the dilemma of bodily weakness
Oulton, C. 2009. ''The shadow which I call pain'': Mary Cholmondeley and the dilemma of bodily weakness. Life Writing. 6 (3), pp. 303-312. https://doi.org/10.1080/14484520903082926
“What a comrade she would make”: the limits of romantic friendship in Jude the Obscure
Oulton, C. 2007. “What a comrade she would make”: the limits of romantic friendship in Jude the Obscure. Thomas Hardy Journal. 23, pp. 117-125.
Left past the moon
Oulton, C. 2001. Left past the moon. NPF Publications.
''The bad women are better than the good ones'': the new woman and sexual fall in Cholmondeley's short fiction
Oulton, C. 2009. ''The bad women are better than the good ones'': the new woman and sexual fall in Cholmondeley's short fiction. in: Oulton, C. and Schatz, S. (ed.) Mary Cholmondeley Reconsidered London, UK Pickering & Chatto.