Purkiss, Diane 1961- - Diane Purkiss (born 30 June ) 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.Troublesome Things: A History of Fairies and Fairy Stories ... Diane Purkiss is a fellow and tutor of English at Keble College, Oxford, and her research areas include the writings of John Milton, Renaissance drama, the English Civil War, and the supernatural in the early modern period.About: Diane Purkiss - DBpedia Association Areas of interest include the English Civil War, Milton, and Marvell; Marvell in manuscript culture; the supernatural, especially witchcraft; food and food history; children’s literature; folklore and folktale/fairytale; writer’s block and the writing process. Current projects near completion: English Food: A People’s History. PURKISS, Diane -
SIDELIGHTS: Diane Purkiss is a fellow and tutor of English at Keble College, Oxford. Her research areas include Milton, Renaissance drama, the English Civil War, and the supernatural in the early modern period. Toggle share options
My period-specific research centres on two things: the supernatural (ghosts, fairies, witches), and the writers of the English Civil War, especially Milton and Marvell, but also women writers like Anna Trapnel and Brilliana Harley.
Diane Purkiss (born 30 June 1961) is an.
Diane Purkiss (born 30 June ) is 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 Melbourne, Australia, and was educated at Roseville College, Our Lady of the Rosary Convent, and Stuartholme School.Professor of English Literature; Tutorial Fellow, Keble College.
PURKISS, DianePURKISS, Diane. Australian, b. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: Keble College, Oxford, England, fellow and tutor; Exeter University, Exeter, England, professor of English. Source for information on Purkiss, Diane: Writers Directory dictionary.
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'Diane Purkiss insists on taking witches seriously. Her refusal to write witch-believers off as unenlightened has produced some richly intelligent meditations on their -- and our -- world.' - The Observer'An invigorating and challenging book sets many hares running.' - The Times Higher Education Supplement.
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Diane Purkiss is Professor of English Literature and Fellow in English at Keble College Oxford. |
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Born June 30, 1961, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; immigrated to England; married; children: Michael Dowling. |
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Diane Purkiss is an Australian historian, and Fellow and Tutor of English at Keble College, Oxford. |
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Diane Purkiss is a Professor of English Literature at Oxford and fellow of Keble College. |
Women, Texts and Histories 1575-1760 - 1st Edition - Diane ...
About Diane Purkiss: Purkiss also writes children's books with her son, Michael Dowling, under the pseudonym Tobias Druitt.. Diane Purkiss is the author. 
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Saturday, 16 March pm. 1 hour. Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre. £7 - £ Diane Purkiss (Author of The English Civil War) - Goodreads
A household help? Something tiny in a sparkly pink skirt? Fairies have been all of these, and in this fascinating book Diane Purkiss traces their biography in British culture from their origins as child-eating demons right down to Cicely Mary Barker’s Flower Fairies and little girls’ fancy dresses. ‘Human nature’, writes Purkiss. Diane Purkiss | Centre for Early Modern Studies
The shared aim of these important new critical interventions into the early modern period is to make fresh feminist attempts to uncover the writings of Elizabethan and Jacobean women. Subject to silence, censorship and manipulation in the terms of overriding political concerns of the day, the feminist history of the early modern period is still a largely unwritten story. New feminist analysis.