Julie Wheelwright
Biographic Data
| ID | 4213066 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julie Wheelwright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julie |
| FAMILY NAME | Wheelwright |
| SIGNATURE | WHEELWRIGHT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | City, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6982-4476 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Doctor, dancer, drug addict? interwar spy writers and the literary construction of Germany’s female intelligence operatives
Recent scholarship has begun to document the significance of women’s engagement in First World War espionage, while questions of the narrative non-fiction writer’s role in shaping public perceptions of female agents remain understudied. This essay considers how British and other European spy writers in the inter-war period enshrined cliches of female intelligence agents through the genre of literary journalism. British post-war writers experiment…
Marketing coup or paradigm shift? Reflections on the Dutch media interpretations of the 2017 ‘Mata Hari: De mythe en het meisje’
Following the major Fries Museum exhibition about Margaretha Zelle MacLeod aka Mata Hari (1876–1917), this article explores how Dutch arts journalism reflected its successful balance of commercial appeal, subject complexity, and contemporary relevance. The curators aimed to balance research with aestheticism to offer a more sympathetic view of this historically controversial subject. This article furthermore investigates how Dutch arts journalist…
The Other Place
This short memoir explores how growing up between cultures can produce a dual perspective on one’s individual history, concepts of home and belonging. The author meditates on how her English parents’ distancing of their past from ‘the other place’ made their children curious about the ‘home’ country and their relationship to it through the development of narratives. The essay also touches upon the perception of British immigrants to Canada as whi…
Literary journalism: Ethics in three dimensions
Revamping the vamps: When a female spy speaks out
How could she?” Unpalatable Facts and Feminists’ Heroines’
Colonel’ barker: A case study in the contradictions of fascism
In 1929 ‘Colonel’ Barker, known as a leading light in a British Fascist organization, the National Fascisti, appeared in a London court on two counts of perjury. The Colonel’ was soon revealed as Valerie Arkell‐Smith, a woman who had married her lover, Elfreda Haward, in a Brighton Parish church and literally convinced hundreds of men with her disguise. The press coverage devoted to Valerie Arkell‐Smith's sensational trial for her activities as ‘…
Amazons and military maids: ” An examination of female military heroines in British literature and the changing construction of gender
Amazons and military maids: ” An examination of female military heroines in British literature and the changing construction of gender
Colonel’ barker: A case study in the contradictions of fascism
In 1929 ‘Colonel’ Barker, known as a leading light in a British Fascist organization, the National Fascisti, appeared in a London court on two counts of perjury. The Colonel’ was soon revealed as Valerie Arkell‐Smith, a woman who had married her lover, Elfreda Haward, in a Brighton Parish church and literally convinced hundreds of men with her disguise. The press coverage devoted to Valerie Arkell‐Smith's sensational trial for her activities as ‘…
How could she?” Unpalatable Facts and Feminists’ Heroines’
Revamping the vamps: When a female spy speaks out
Literary journalism: Ethics in three dimensions
The Other Place
This short memoir explores how growing up between cultures can produce a dual perspective on one’s individual history, concepts of home and belonging. The author meditates on how her English parents’ distancing of their past from ‘the other place’ made their children curious about the ‘home’ country and their relationship to it through the development of narratives. The essay also touches upon the perception of British immigrants to Canada as whi…
Marketing coup or paradigm shift? Reflections on the Dutch media interpretations of the 2017 ‘Mata Hari: De mythe en het meisje’
Following the major Fries Museum exhibition about Margaretha Zelle MacLeod aka Mata Hari (1876–1917), this article explores how Dutch arts journalism reflected its successful balance of commercial appeal, subject complexity, and contemporary relevance. The curators aimed to balance research with aestheticism to offer a more sympathetic view of this historically controversial subject. This article furthermore investigates how Dutch arts journalist…
Doctor, dancer, drug addict? interwar spy writers and the literary construction of Germany’s female intelligence operatives
Recent scholarship has begun to document the significance of women’s engagement in First World War espionage, while questions of the narrative non-fiction writer’s role in shaping public perceptions of female agents remain understudied. This essay considers how British and other European spy writers in the inter-war period enshrined cliches of female intelligence agents through the genre of literary journalism. British post-war writers experiment…
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