Tessa Whitehouse: Cowper, Faith and Women’s Letters

Dr Tessa Whitehouse is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature at Queen Mary University of London, where she directs the Centre for Religion and Literature in English (QMCRLE). She is the author of The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 (OUP, 2015) and articles on memorial practices, diaries, autobiography, letters, friendship and Transatlantic literary exchanges. She has co-edited three essay collections: Textual Transformations (OUP, 2019), Reconstructing Early Modern Religious Lives: The Exemplary and the Mundane (E-rea, 2020) and Religion and Life Cycles in Early Modern England (MUP, in press). The current focus of her research is friendship and lived religion.
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