Dr Leigh Wetherall Dickson

Associate Professor

Department: Humanities

ADSS Leighwetheralldickson Staffprofile 255 My first degree was a BA in English Studies at Sheffield Hallam, followed by a PhD. In December 2006 I first joined Northumbria as the Leverhulme Research Associate for the three-year project 'Before Depression: Representation and Culture of the English Malady, 1660-1800', and have since become a full-time lecturer in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century English Literature at Northumbria.

Campus Address

Office: Lipman 403

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Key Publications

The Paper Age: Jane Austen, Fashion and Finance, Wetherall Dickson, L. 1 May 2024, Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press
Lady Caroline Lamb nee Ponsonby (1785-1828), Wetherall Dickson, L. 30 Dec 2022, The Routledge Companion to Women Writers, London, Taylor & Francis
Speculation, Suicide, and the Silver Fork Novel, Wetherall Dickson, L. 13 Feb 2020, In: Studies in the Literary Imagination
'Only Four Months a Widow': The Softened Colours of Lady Susan's Wardrobe in Whit Stillman's 'Love and Friendship' (2016), Wetherall Dickson, L. Oct 2018, After Austen, Palgrave Macmillan
Syphilis and Sociability: The Impolite Bodies of James Boswell and Sylas Neville, Wetherall Dickson, L. 30 Apr 2018, The Male Body in Medicine and Literature, Liverpool University Press
“A written monologue by that most interesting being, myself”: Sickness, Suicide, and Self-Reflection in the Diary of Alice James, Wetherall Dickson, L. 25 Sep 2016, In: Studies in the Literary Imagination
Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Ingram, A., Wetherall Dickson, L. 28 Sep 2016
Fashion Victim: High Society, Sociability and Suicide in Georgiana Cavendish’s The Sylph, Dickson, L. 28 Sep 2016, Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Palgrave Macmillan
Lisa M. Hermsen, 'Manic Minds: Mania's Mad History and its Neuro-Future', Wetherall Dickson, L. Mar 2015, In: History of Psychiatry
Representing and expressing states of mind: "The labyrinth of another's being", Ingram, A., O'Connell, A., Wetherall-Dickson, L. 1 Mar 2015, In: Studies in the Literary Imagination

Current and Recent Projects

WRITING DOCTORS:SELF-REPRESENTATION AND REPUTATION AMONG MEDICAL MEN AND WOMEN IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, Lawlor, C. (Principal Investigator), Wetherall Dickson, L. (Co Investigator), The Leverhulme Trust, 30/09/18 - 29/09/21, £295,430.00

PGR Supervision

Bethany Brigham Reforming the Anatomy Narrative: Popular Medico-Gothic Interventions, c.1790-1850 Start Date: 01/10/2019 End Date: 30/01/2024
Joanne Edwards Recontextualising 'The Gay Delavals': Women's Lives and Family Narratives at the National Trust's Seaton Delaval Hall Start Date: 28/02/2024