Dr LeeAnne M. Richardson

IAS Open Programme

Georgia State University

LeeAnne M. Richardson is an Associate Professor of English at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, where she teaches courses on British literature and culture, 1880-1920. The Forms of Michael Field (Palgrave, 2021) explores the poetry and the poetic identity created by Katharine Bradley (1846-1914) and her niece Edith Cooper (1862-1913) as they came together to write as Michael Field. Drawing on new formalism and new lyric studies, and using extensive archival resources, Richardson argues that their modes of self-creation are analogous to their poetic creations. The book analyzes Michael Field’s continual quest for the aesthetic forms that best express their evolving ideas about identity and sexuality, gender and sacrifice, lyric voice and authority.

Richardson has also written New Woman and Colonial Adventure Fiction in Late Victorian Britain: Gender, Genre, Empire (2006), as well as articles on turn-of-the-century women poets like Dollie Radford, writers of empire like Olive Schreiner and Flora Annie Steel, and “little magazines” of the late-Victorian era. She is currently writing about the palimpsestic nature of Michael Field’s diaries as they revise poems, re-narrate events, and commemorate anniversaries of births, deaths, and other significant events.

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