Dr Sophie Franklin

Books

• Violence and the Brontës: Language, Reception, Afterlives (Edinburgh University Press, 2025).
• Consent: Legacies, Representations and Frameworks for the Future, co-edited with Hannah Piercy, Arya Thampuran, and Rebecca White (Routledge, 2023).
• Charlotte Brontë Revisited: A View from the Twenty-First Century (Salford: Saraband, 2016). Reissued with new material in 2018.

Journal Articles

• ‘Violence in Charlotte Brontë’s “A Letter from Lord Charles Wellesley”: Influence, Representation, Resurrection’, Brontë Studies, Special Issue: Charlotte Brontë’s Little Book, 50.4 (2025), 429–39.
• ‘Reimagining Violence in the Brontë Myth: “Tales of Positive Violence and Crime” in Neo-Victorian Brontë Afterlives’, Neo-Victorian Studies, 14.1 (2021/2022), 135–65.
• ‘“After the manner of Jael and Sisera”: Transforming Violence and Mental Pain in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette’, Brontë Studies, Special Issue: The Brontës: Sickness, Contagion, Isolation, 46.2 (2021), 146–58.
• ‘“Ay, ay, divil, all’s raight! We’ve smashed ’em!”: Translating Violence and ‘Yorkshire Roughness’ in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley’, Brontë Studies, Special Issue: The Coarseness of the Brontës Reconsidered, 44.1 (2019), 43–55.
• with Claire O’Callaghan, ‘Introduction: The Coarseness of the Brontës Reconsidered’, Brontë Studies, Special Issue: The Coarseness of the Brontës: A Reappraisal, 44.1 (2019), 1–4.
• ‘Beyond the Civilizing Process: A Response to Peter K. Andersson’s “How Civilized Were the Victorians?”’, Journal of Victorian Culture, 22.1 (2017), 105–14.

Book Chapters

• ‘Contagious Antipathy in Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey’, in Victorian Antipathies: Negative Feelings in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, edited by Nina Engelhardt and Anja Hartl (Palgrave Macmillan), accepted and forthcoming in 2026.
• ‘Neo-Victorian Violence’, in The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism, edited by Sarah E. Maier and Brenda Ayres (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), pp. 337–55. Available here.
• ‘Introduction’, co-written with Hannah Piercy, Arya Thampuran, and Rebecca White, in Consent: Legacies, Representations and Frameworks for the Future, ed. by Sophie Franklin, Hannah Piercy, Arya Thampuran, and Rebecca White (Routledge, 2023), pp. 1–16. Open Access.
• ‘Afterword’, co-written with Hannah Piercy, Arya Thampuran, and Rebecca White, in Consent: Legacies, Representations and Frameworks for the Future, ed. by Sophie Franklin, Hannah Piercy, Arya Thampuran, and Rebecca White (Routledge, 2023), pp. 234–42. Open Access.

Book Reviews

• Review of (eds.) Eva Lambertsson Björk, Jutta Eschenbach, and Johanna M. Wagner, Women and Fairness: Navigating an Unfair World (Münster: Waxmann, 2021), Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch, 63 (2022), 412–416.
• Review of Pauline Clooney, Charlotte & Arthur (Buncrana: Merdog, 2021), Brontë Studies, 47.2 (2022), 156–58.
• Review of Lisa Ebert, Ambiguity in Emily Brontë’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ (Paderborn: Brill, 2020) and Olga Springer, Ambiguity in Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Villette’ (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Unipress, 2020), Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch, 62 (2021), 473–478.
• Review of Emma Butcher, The Brontës and War: Fantasy and Conflict in Charlotte and Branwell Brontë’s Youthful Writings (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), in Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, 17.1 (2021).
• Review of (ed.) Alexandra Lewis, The Brontës and the Idea of the Human: Science, Ethics, and the Victorian Imagination (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), in The Review of English Studies, 71.300 (2020), 594–6.
• Review of Deborah Lutz, The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015), in Brontë Studies, 40.3 (2015), 264–66.

Foreword

• ‘Foreword’, Brontë Sisters: ‘Jane Eyre’ and ‘The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Deluxe Edition) (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2017).