Diane Purkiss
Author, historian and literary scholar
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Diane Purkiss is an Australian historian, and Fellow and Tutor of English at Keble College, Oxford. She specialises in Renaissance and women's literature, witchcraft and the English Civil War. Purkiss was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and was educated at Roseville College, Our Lady of the Rosary Convent, and Stuartholme School. She received a BA with first class Honours from the University of Queensland and D.Phil. from Merton College, Oxford. She became lecturer in English at the University of East Anglia in 1991, and lecturer in English at the University of Reading in 1993. In 1998 she became Professor of English at Exeter University, before taking up her current post at Keble College in 2000.
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- The Witch in History : Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations (1997) (166)
- What does a woman want? : reading and sexual difference (1996) (137)
- Troublesome Things: A History of Fairies and Fairy Stories (2001) (53)
- Literature, gender and politics during the English Civil War (2005) (40)
- At the bottom of the garden : a dark history of fairies, hobgoblins, and other troublesome things (2003) (39)
- Women, Texts and Histories 1575-1760 (1992) (37)
- The English Civil War: A People's History (2006) (34)
- MATERIAL GIRLS: THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY WOMAN DEBATE (2003) (34)
- Sounds of Silence: Fairies and Incest in Scottish Witchcraft Stories (2001) (16)
- Desire and Its Deformities: Fantasies of Witchcraft in the English Civil War (1997) (16)
- Invasions: Prophecy and Bewitchment in the Case of Margaret Muschamp (1998) (15)
- The English Civil War : Papists, gentlewomen, soldiers, and witchfinders in the birth of modern Britain (2006) (13)
- Women's Stories of Witchcraft in Early Modern England: The House, the Body, the Child (1995) (12)
- Three Tragedies By Renaissance Women (1999) (8)
- Gender, power and the body : some figurations of femininity in Milton and seventeenth-century women's writing (1991) (8)
- Renaissance women : the plays of Elizabeth Cary : the poems of Aemilia Lanyer (1994) (7)
- Thinking of gender (2010) (4)
- Witchcraft and Deep Time–a debate at Harvard (2010) (4)
- The Children of Medea: Euripides, Louise Woodward, and Deborah Eappen (1999) (4)
- Blood, sacrifice, marriage: why iphigeneia and mariam have to die (1999) (3)
- Witchcraft in Early Modern Literature (2013) (2)
- Macbeth and the All-singing, All-dancing Plays of the Jacobean Witch-vogue (2000) (2)
- Fractious: Teenage Girls' Tales in and out of Shakespeare (2017) (2)
- Whose Liberty? The Rhetoric of Milton's Divorce Tracts (2011) (2)
- Old Wives’ Tales Retold: the mutations of the Fairy Queen (2000) (1)
- Literature, Gender and Politics During the English Civil War: Dismembering and remembering: the English Civil War and male identity (2005) (1)
- Literature, Gender and Politics During the English Civil War: Charles I (2005) (1)
- Toying with the book: children’s literature, novelty formats, and the material book, 1810–1914 (2013) (1)
- What we leave out (2006) (1)
- Body Crimes: The Witches, Lady Macbeth and the Relics (2016) (1)
- The Masque of Food: Staging and Banqueting in Shakespeare's England (2014) (1)
- Charming Witches: The "Old Religion" and the Pendle Trial (2014) (1)
- Magical tales : myth, legend and enchantment in children's books (2013) (1)
- INTRODUCTION: MINDING THE STORY (1992) (1)
- mary ellen lamb. The Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser and Jonson. (2010) (0)
- Literature, Gender and Politics During the English Civil War: Matthew Hopkins and the panic about witches (2005) (0)
- Historical Dictionary of Witchcraft ed. by Jonathan Durrant, Michael A. Bailey (review) (2014) (0)
- Literature, Gender and Politics During the English Civil War: Republican politics (2005) (0)
- Literature, Gender and Politics During the English Civil War: Monsters and men (2005) (0)
- The Oxford School of children’s fantasy literature (2011) (0)
- Regaining Paradise Lost@@@Spokesperson Milton: Voices in Contemporary Criticism (1996) (0)
- Milton and monsters (2005) (0)
- Mark Stoyle. The Black Legend of Prince Rupert's Dog: Witchcraft and Propaganda during the English Civil War. (2013) (0)
- Susan D. Amussen and David E. Underdown. Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560–1640: Turning the World Upside Down. (2018) (0)
- Opening the king's cabinet (2005) (0)
- Literature, Gender and Politics During the English Civil War: Notes (2005) (0)
- What Do Men Want? Satan, the Rake, and Masculine Desire (2014) (0)
- Pens and needles (1997) (0)
- Acknowledging how informed she is as a second generation, second wave feminist by stories of the misogyny associated with the "Burning Times," (2009) (0)
- Literature, Gender and Politics During the English Civil War: Introduction (2005) (0)
- Introduction (2022) (0)
- Getting It Wrong: The Problems with Reinventing the Past (2019) (0)
- Laura: Uncovering Gender in Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell@@@Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance (1998) (0)
- Modern Witches and Their Past (2019) (0)
- Milton and material culture (2011) (0)
- Anna Trapnel’s Literary Geography (2010) (0)
- The English Civil War (2007) (0)
- English Witches and SS Academics: Evaluating Sources for the English Witch Trials in Himmler's Hexenkartothek (2017) (0)
- Fingers in the Pie: (2020) (0)
- Bodleian Library MS Eng. Poet. d.49 (2019) (0)
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