Sophie Gilmartin
Biographic Data
| ID | 935699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sophie Gilmartin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sophie |
| FAMILY NAME | Gilmartin |
| SIGNATURE | GILMARTIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Holloway University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Map of Divergence and Connection
This essay explores interactions between five people – Inuit, Scottish, and American – in Nunavut and Aberdeen, Scotland, between the late 1830s and the 1860s. The fact that these people all knew each other, or of each other, provides an opportunity to investigate a rich network of communication between them over a twenty-year period. The main primary sources investigated include the first biography of a young Inuk, written by a Scottish doctor; …
The Physiology of the Everyday
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Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction
The Sati, the Bride, and the Widow
My title brings together two cultures — Indian and British — and three phases of womanhood — the bride, the widow, and — through suttee — the dead widow. Suttee, or sati, is the obsolete Hindu practice in which a widow burns herself upon her husband's funeral pyre. In this essay I wish to explore how sati was used as a metaphor in British novels and periodicals in the nineteenth century — used both as a metaphor for the British widow's mourning r…
The Sati, the Bride, and the Widow
My title brings together two cultures — Indian and British — and three phases of womanhood — the bride, the widow, and — through suttee — the dead widow. Suttee, or sati, is the obsolete Hindu practice in which a widow burns herself upon her husband's funeral pyre. In this essay I wish to explore how sati was used as a metaphor in British novels and periodicals in the nineteenth century — used both as a metaphor for the British widow's mourning r…
The Sati, the Bride, and the Widow
My title brings together two cultures — Indian and British — and three phases of womanhood — the bride, the widow, and — through suttee — the dead widow. Suttee, or sati, is the obsolete Hindu practice in which a widow burns herself upon her husband's funeral pyre. In this essay I wish to explore how sati was used as a metaphor in British novels and periodicals in the nineteenth century — used both as a metaphor for the British widow's mourning r…
Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction
Select Bibliography
The Physiology of the Everyday
A Map of Divergence and Connection
This essay explores interactions between five people – Inuit, Scottish, and American – in Nunavut and Aberdeen, Scotland, between the late 1830s and the 1860s. The fact that these people all knew each other, or of each other, provides an opportunity to investigate a rich network of communication between them over a twenty-year period. The main primary sources investigated include the first biography of a young Inuk, written by a Scottish doctor; …
Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · African history and culture studies (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Bibliography (1 work) · Biography (1 work) · Bride (1 work)