Heather Tilley
Biographic Data
| ID | 5400419 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather Tilley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather |
| FAMILY NAME | Tilley |
| SIGNATURE | TILLEY H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8234-2132 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Victorian Beauty
This introduction celebrates the work of Professor Hilary Fraser and discusses the contributions to this issue of 19 on the theme of Victorian Beauty
Blindness and Writing
Reading for Health
Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel." English Studies, 98(6), pp. 651–652
Rocks and Pebbles
Shooting Star CHASE is a children's hospice service with two hospices: Shooting Star House in Hampton and Christopher's near Guildford, Surrey. Since 2004, Christopher's has run groups for bereaved siblings. In the summer of 2008 an innovative collaborative approach to this group was piloted, joining the skills of the Music Therapist, Family Support and Bereavement Counsellor and musicians from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Community and Educa…
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The Sentimental Touch
In this essay I analyse Dickens's gift of 250 copies of the Old Curiosity Shop in embossed type to the Perkins Institution for the Blind in 1868. I consider the way in which a blind ‘feeling reader’ may have accessed sentimental fiction, focusing on the tension between this as an empowering moment for the blind person, expanding available literature, and the ways in which the novel's sentimental content may have reinforced stereotypes about disab…
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Frances Browne, the "Blind Poetess"
This essay analyses the nineteenth-century reception of Frances Browne’s writing by both sighted and blind and visually impaired readers, exploring the competing ways in which the work was read bio-critically by the two groups. Sighted readers were concerned to test the validity of visual images constructed in the writing, while the blind and visually impaired community hailed the well-known poet and novelist as a role model. The essay concentrat…
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Frances Browne, the "Blind Poetess"
This essay analyses the nineteenth-century reception of Frances Browne’s writing by both sighted and blind and visually impaired readers, exploring the competing ways in which the work was read bio-critically by the two groups. Sighted readers were concerned to test the validity of visual images constructed in the writing, while the blind and visually impaired community hailed the well-known poet and novelist as a role model. The essay concentrat…
The Sentimental Touch
In this essay I analyse Dickens's gift of 250 copies of the Old Curiosity Shop in embossed type to the Perkins Institution for the Blind in 1868. I consider the way in which a blind ‘feeling reader’ may have accessed sentimental fiction, focusing on the tension between this as an empowering moment for the blind person, expanding available literature, and the ways in which the novel's sentimental content may have reinforced stereotypes about disab…
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Rocks and Pebbles
Shooting Star CHASE is a children's hospice service with two hospices: Shooting Star House in Hampton and Christopher's near Guildford, Surrey. Since 2004, Christopher's has run groups for bereaved siblings. In the summer of 2008 an innovative collaborative approach to this group was piloted, joining the skills of the Music Therapist, Family Support and Bereavement Counsellor and musicians from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Community and Educa…
New and Recent Titles
Blindness and Writing
Reading for Health
Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel." English Studies, 98(6), pp. 651–652
Victorian Beauty
This introduction celebrates the work of Professor Hilary Fraser and discusses the contributions to this issue of 19 on the theme of Victorian Beauty
Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies (7 works) · Educational Robotics and Engineering (7 works) · Human auditory perception and evaluation (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)