Dr. Tabitha Kenlon researches representations of women in fiction, drama, and advice literature. She has published articles on gender performance in plays by William Shakespeare and Hannah Cowley, and on the links between Gothic novels and conduct manuals. She is host of the podcast Misconduct: 700 Years of Telling Women What to Do.Tabitha Kenlon has a PhD in English. Her research concentrates on representations of women and the manipulation of genre in fiction, nonfiction and drama, with a focus on eighteenth-century Britain.
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As long as people have been writing books, authors have been using them to create misrepresentations of women. From medieval reality show-style wife tests to twenty-first century dating guides based on two-hundred-year-old novels, Conduct Books and the Hi... SEE MORE