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Author: Emily Turner

By day, journalist. By night, postgraduate researcher and doctoral candidate at the University of Sussex, studying the medical humanities in the Victorian period. Occasional artist.

Laurie Penny’s Bitch Doctrine: a review

Laurie Penny’s writing has always struck a chord with me. I’ve followed her columns since my awkward, confused teenage years, … More

Book, Culture, Feminism, Film, Mental Health, Politics, Research, Review, Writing

Mover and shaker

For this etc magazine feature, I met a dancer exploring the millennial experience through movement [This article was featured in … More

Culture, Dance, etc, Lifestyle, Millennial, Performance, Writing

Tales from the Archive: The Seal Road bungalow poltergeist

[This story was published on February 7 in the Observer series. Read the original story at https://www.chichester.co.uk/news/nostalgia-the-seal-road-bungalow-poltergeist-1-8369726.] There were ‘queer things’ … More

Ghosts, Heritage, History, Nostalgia, Research, Tales from the Archives, Writing

Art and Identity

[A shorter version of this review was featured in the January version of the East etc magazines. The original version … More

Art, Culture, etc, Fashion, Feminism, History, LGBT+, Lifestyle, Queer, Research, Review, Writing

Gluck: Art and Identity opens in Brighton

[This is a report on Gluck: Art and Identity. It is a combined version of the version published in the … More

Art, Culture, Feminism, History, LGBT+, Lifestyle, Queer, Research, Review, Writing

Review: Rag’n’Bone Man welcomed home at Brighton Centre

[This story was published on December 4 at the Brighton and Hove Independent website. Read the original story at brightonandhoveindependent.co.uk/news/rag-n-bone-man-welcomed-home-at-brighton-centre-1-8274568.] https://www.brightonandhoveindependent.co.uk/news/rag-n-bone-man-welcomed-home-at-brighton-centre-1-8274568 … More

Culture, Lifestyle, Music, Photography, Review, Writing

Naval officer who helped to break the Enigma code

[This story was published on November 30 in the Chichester Observer. Read the original story at https://www.chichester.co.uk/news/naval-officer-who-helped-to-break-the-enigma-code-1-8268267.]  A writer has told … More

Book, History, Nostalgia, Research, Tales from the Archives, Writing

‘For years, Dorian could not free himself’: themes within The Picture of Dorian Gray

[This is a summarized version of a short paper I wrote during my first Undergraduate year at the University of … More

Academia, Book, Culture, Decadence, History, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Undergraduate

Charles Darwin’s beard and George Eliot’s glove: Kathryn Hughes investigates The Curious Case of the Missing Body in the Archive

[This story was origianally published on November 27 on the Royal Holloway Victorian Studies blog. Read the original story at www.royalholloway.ac.uk/english/research/victorian-studies-research-updates/november-event.aspx.] … More

Culture, History, Research, Review

Light and colour: Artist’s painting connects viewers to the natural world

[This story was published on November 23 by etc Magazine. Read the original story at http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk//launch.aspx?pbid=cdbd86eb-0ed9-41e5-a590-031651c44a1c, pages 40 and 41. The … More

Art, etc, Lifestyle, Nature, Painting, Writing

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