Resources | Julia Wedgwood

Further Resources on Wedgwood

Biographies

B. Wedgwood, A Critical Study of the Life and Works of Julia Wedgwood, PhD thesis, UCL, 1983.

Sue Brown, Julia Wedgwood, the Unexpected Victorian: The Life and Writing of a Remarkable Female Intellectual, Anthem Press, 2023.

The B. Wedgwood biography is still valuable though rather dated in some ways;

Sue Brown's biography is highly recommended. Readable and a mine of information on all things Julia Wedgwood.

Web resources

'Julia Wedgwood', Darwin Correspondence Project.

Rachel Kilgore, 'A Wonderful Variety of Mud', Baylor University blog.

Samantha Evans, 'Julia Wedgwood's Pamphlet on Female Suffrage', 1584 blog.

Jose Harris, 'Julia Wedgwood', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Alison Stone, 'Julia Wedgwood (1833-1913)', a tribute, Pascal Theatre Company.

Academic literature

Sue Brown, 'Julia Wedgwood, a Victorian Feminist and Female Intellectual', Women's History Review 30 (2024).

Donovan Schaefer, 'The Science of Life' in The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Christian Thought, ed. Joel Rasmussen et al. Oxford University Press, 2017.

L. Robert Stevens, ‘Intertextual Constructions of Faith: Julia Wedgwood (1833-1913)’, in Women’s Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain, ed. Julie Melnyk. Garland, 1998.

Sue Brown, 'Robert Browning and Julia Wedgwood: The Unpublished Correspondence', Journal of Browning Studies 3 (2012): 29-52.

Madison Marshall, Reading Kinship: Intellectual influence, authorial formation, and the father-daughter relationship of Hensleigh and Julia ‘Snow’ Wedgwood, PhD thesis, University of Leeds, 2022.

Alison Stone, Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Oxford University Press, 2023.

Alison Stone, 'Julia Wedgwood and the Origin of Language', Intellectual History Review 34 (2024).

Katherine Malone, The Lady Critic: Women of Letters and Critical Authority in British Periodicals, 1854-1908, PhD thesis, Temple University, 2009.