Lucy Whitehead

Lucy Whitehead specialises in Victorian literature and afterlives, literary archives, and book history. Her AHRC-funded doctorate examined the biographical afterlives of Charles Dickens and his circle 1870–2020. She is currently preparing this research for book publication. She was the winner of the Journal of Victorian Culture’s Graduate Essay Prize in 2019 for her article ‘Restless Dickens’, and has spoken about her research into Dickens biographies on BBC Radio 3. She has held visiting research fellowships at the New York Public Library, the Huntington Library, and the Clark Library at UCLA. She has also worked collaboratively with the Charles Dickens Museum and the National Trust. At Royal Holloway, her new Leverhulme-funded book project investigates the transatlantic trade in modern British literary manuscripts in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.