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Professor Katharine Cockin - Full Publication List

Electronic Resources AHRC Ellen Terry and Database http://www.ellenterryarchive.hull.ac.uk A descriptive catalogue of the most significant theatre archive in Britain: comprising over 20,000 documents, the papers of Ellen Terry (1847-1928) and Edith Craig (1869-1947) are owned by the and held at the National Trust property, , and the British Library. This project has involved close liaison between the University of Hull, the National Trust and literary manuscripts at the British Library.

AHRC Searching for Theatrical Ancestors http://www.ellenterryarchive.hull.ac.uk/star This new enhancement to the resource described above includes guidance for family history researchers and in addition to the 20,000 records it provides access to a further 15,000 freely available data sets relevant for theatre history research. The Shakespeare Train page provides a creative and engaging interaction with data on Ellen Terry’s Shakespeare tours. This interface uses googlemaps and a selection of digitized play programmes.

Usage since launch on 29 July 2016 (number of unique users and sessions (discrete periods when those users are looking at the site) has approximately doubled: 13-Dec-2015 - 28-Jul-2016: 943 users and 1,239 sessions 29-Jul-2016 - 14-Mar-2017: 1,846 users and 2,455 sessions

UK usage has risen (number of sessions) by 130% and represents over 66% of all sessions: increase in share of 16%.

Number of page views has risen by 70%: Bounce rate has reduced: 13-Dec-2015 - 28-Jul-2016: 4,789 13-Dec-2015 - 28-Jul-2016: 66% 29-Jul-2016 - 14-Mar-2017: 8,216 29-Jul-2016 - 14-Mar-2017: 50%

Mobile usage has increased by 283% and usage on tablets has increased by 125%. A better experience on a variety of device/screen sizes was a key goal of the redesign.

Books (15) Edith Craig and The Theatres of Art, London: Bloomsbury Methuen, 2017. (ed.) Ellen Terry: Lives of Shakespearian Actors, London: Pickering & Chatto 2012. (ed.) The Literary North, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2012. (ed.) Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence, London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011. (ed.) Ellen Terry: The Collected Letters Volume 1, London: Pickering & Chatto, 2010. (ed.) Ellen Terry: The Collected Letters Volume 2, London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011. (ed.) Ellen Terry: The Collected Letters Volume 3, London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012. (ed.) Ellen Terry: The Collected Letters Volume 4, London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. (ed.) Ellen Terry: The Collected Letters Volume 5, London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014. (ed.) Ellen Terry: The Collected Letters Volume 6, London: Pickering & Chatto, 2015. (co-ed with Jago Morrison) The Post-war British Literature Handbook, London: Continuum, 2009. (ed.) Women’s Suffrage Drama: Volume Two, Women’s Suffrage Literature, London: Routledge, 2007 (funded by AHRC Small Grant in the Performing Arts 2004). Set co-edited K. Cockin, G. Norquay, S. Park (ed.) Suffragette Sally and Selected Short Stories: Volume Three, Women’s Suffrage Literature, London: Routledge, 2007. Set co-edited K. Cockin, G. Norquay, S. Park Women and Theatre in the Age of Suffrage: The Pioneer Players, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives, London: Cassell, 1998.

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Guest Editor of Journal Special Issues [conference proceedings] (ed.) Silence, Law and Literature, 24,1 (2012). (ed.) Contemporary Fiction, Critical Survey, XIX, 3 (2008). (ed.) Friends and Family Figures in Contemporary Fiction, Critical Survey, XVIII, 2 (2006).

Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals ‘Becoming Plant and Posthumanism in Jeff Noon’s Pollen (1995)’, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 57,1 (2015) 94-104. doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2015.1019405 ‘Building Bridges: Widening Participation, English Literature and Hull City of Culture’, Use of English, 66, 1, Autumn (2014) 20-26. ‘Queen Caroline’s Pains and Penalties: Silence and Speech in the Dramatic Art of British Women’s Suffrage’, in Law and Literature, 24,1 (2012) 40-58. ‘Chicks and Lads: Gender, Generation and Literariness in Contemporary British Fiction', Anglistik und Englischunterricht (2007) 107-24. ‘’s Warriors: Dramatic Reinventions of Militancy in the British Women’s Suffrage Movement’, Women’s History Review, XIV, 3 (2005) 527-42. ‘Inventing the Suffragettes: Anachronism, Gnosticism and Corporeality in Contemporary Fiction’, Critical Survey, XVI, 3 (2004) 17-32. ‘Rethinking Transracial Adoption: Reading Jackie Kay’s The Adoption Papers’, a/b: Autobiography Studies, XVIII, 2 (2003) 276-91. doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2003.10815308 ‘Ellen Terry, The Ghostwriter and the Laughing Statue: The Victorian Actress, Letters and Life- writing’, Journal of European Studies, XXXII (2002) 151-63. 'New Light on Edith Craig,' Theatre Notebook, XLV, 3 (1991) 132-43. 'Addendum to "British Literary Magazines: The Victorian and Edwardian Age 1837-1913"', Victorian Periodicals Review, XXIII, 2 Summer (1990) 68.

Essay selected and reprinted Cockin, Katharine (2014) ‘Women's Suffrage Drama' in Maroula Joannou and June Purvis (eds), The Women's Suffrage Movement: New Feminist Essays. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998, pp. 127-139 reprinted in European Theatre Performance Practice, 1900 to the Present, eds. Nadine Holdsworth and Geoff Willcocks, Ashgate. [‘The aim of this is to collect a wide range of important and influential essays in this field, drawn predominantly from English-language journals and books’ (Ashgate).]

Essays ‘Re-Reading Edge of Darkness (1985)’ in Heading North: The North of England in Film and Television, ed. Ewa Mazierska, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2017, pp. 133-49. ‘Dr Mary Murdoch (1864-1916)’ in Hull: History, Culture, Place, eds D. Atkinson et al. : Liverpool University Press, 2017, p. 78. ‘Bram Stoker, Ellen Terry and : The Art of Devilry’ in Bram Stoker and the Gothic: Formations and Transformations,(ed.) C. Wynne, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2016, pp. 159-71. ‘Edith Craig and the Pioneer Players in a “Khaki-clad and Khaki-minded World”: London's International Art Theatre’ in British Theatre and the Great War 1914-1919: New Perspectives, (ed.) A. Maunder, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2015, pp. 146-69. ‘Introducing the Literary North’ in The Literary North (ed.) K. Cockin, Basingstoke: Palgrave 2012, pp. 1-21. ‘Locating the Literary North’ in The Literary North (ed.) K. Cockin, Basingstoke: Palgrave 2012, pp. 240-52. ‘Ellen Terry and Her Circle – Formal Introductions and Informal Encounters’ in Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence (ed.) K. Cockin, London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011, pp. 1-12. ‘Ellen Terry: Preserving the Relics and Creating the Brand’ in Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence (ed.) K. Cockin, London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011, pp. 133-48. With Julian Halliwell, ‘Describing the Ellen Terry and Edith Craig Archive’ in Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence (ed.) Katharine Cockin, London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011, pp. 149-60.

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‘Dame Ellen Terry and Edith Craig: Suitable Subjects for Teaching, Wordplay (English Subject Centre, HEA Newsletter) 2, 2009, online at http://www.english.heacademy.ac.uk/explore/publications/magazine/wordplay2/cockin.htm ‘Ellen Terry and : A Working Relationship’ in Henry Irving: A Re-evaluation of the Pre-eminent Victorian Actor-Manager (ed.) R. Foulkes, London: Ashgate 2008, pp. 37-48. ‘Resisting the Resistance to Reading’, English Subject Centre Newsletter, 6 February 2004, pp. 20-21. ‘“Slinging the Ink About”: Ellen Terry and Women’s Suffrage Agitation’ in Gender and Politics in The Age of Letter-Writing 1750-2000 (eds) C. Bland & M. Cross, London: Ashgate, 2004, pp. 201-12. ‘Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘Three Women’: Work, Marriage and the Old(er) Woman’ in Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Optimist Reformer (eds) G. Rudd & V. Gough, University of Iowa Press, 2000, pp. 74-92. ‘Sexuality in Performance’ in The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance (eds) L. Goodman & J. de Gay, London: Routledge, 1999, pp. 145-49. ‘The History of Women in Theatre 1500-1660’, in The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance, (eds) L. Goodman & J. de Gay, London: Routledge, 1998, pp. 19-24. ‘Women’s Suffrage Drama’ in The Women’s Suffrage Movement: New Feminist Essays (eds) M. Joannou & J. Purvis, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998, pp. 127-39. 'The Pioneer Players: Plays of/with Identity' in Difference in View: Women in Modernism (ed.) G. Griffin. London: Taylor & Francis, 1994, pp. 142-54.

Entries for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography New entries: Margaret Ethel Robertson; Kittie Carson; Laurence Housman; Christopher St. John; Clare Atwood; Edith Craig; Mary Murdoch.

Revised: William Abbott; James Anderson; Thomas Archer; George Bennett; George Bentley; Gustavus Brooke; Thomas Cobham; William Creswick; Edward Elton; Samuel Emery; John Hartley; Francis Huntley; Walter Lacy; Talbot Montague; Frederick Yates.

Entries for Routledge Encyclopaedia of Modernism (online resource published 9 May 2016) ‘Cicely Hamilton’. DOI 10.4324/9781135000356-REM264-1 ‘Edith Craig’. DOI 10.4324/9781135000356-REM259-1

Entries in Reference Books Reader’s Guide to Women’s Studies, (ed.) Eleanor B. Amico, Chicago & London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998. The Reader’s Guide to English Literature (ed.) Mark Hawkins-Dady, London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1996. International Dictionary of Theatre 1: Plays, (ed.) Mark Hawkins-Dady, London: St. James Press, 1992.

Blog publications and interviews Dr Mary Murdoch (1864-1916): A Woman Doctor of Hull (for AHRC Remember Me Project) https://remembermeproject.wordpress.com/2017/04/05/dr-mary-murdoch-1864-1916-a-woman- doctor-of-hull/?frame-nonce=0e6a34c5eb

Searching for Theatrical Ancestors: interview by Nick Thorne at BBC Who Do You Think You Are event at NEC Birmingham, 8 April 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QDDuefYk- 0&feature=youtu.be

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Forthcoming Publications (under contract)

‘Ellen Terry (1847-1928): The Art of Performance and Her Work in Film’ in Stage Women: Female Theatre Workers, Professional Practice and Agency in the Twentieth Century – 1900-1950s (eds) M. Gale and K. Dorney, Manchester: Manchester University Press [revisions completed].

‘Chapter 9: ‘Writing Back from the “Strange Country”: Literature from the North of England’’ in Accelerated Times: British Literature in Transition 1980-2000 (ed.) B. Schoene, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [revisions completed; publication expected 2018.]

‘Formations, Institutions and the “Free Theatre”: Edith Craig's Pioneer Players 1911-25’, Keywords: A Journal of Cultural Materialism, 15, 55-71 [special issue on Raymond Williams and Theatre (ed.) Claire Warden [proofs returned 26 May 17; publication expected summer 2017). ISSN: 978 0 95315

‘Pamela Colman Smith and The Green Sheaf (1903)’ in Literary and Cultural Alternatives to Modernism: Unsettling Presences eds. K. Boiopoulos, T. Patterson, M. Sandys, London: Routledge. Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Literature series [research in progress; MS due Sep 2017; publication in 2018]

(ed.) Ellen Terry: The Collected Letters Volume 7, London: Pickering & Chatto. [research in progress]

(ed.) Ellen Terry: The Collected Letters Volume 8, London: Pickering & Chatto. [research in progress]

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