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Hennegan's academic work focuses on [[lesbian]] and [[gay]] themes in English literature, particularly in British Modernism. She began writing her PhD thesis, “Literature and the Homosexual Cult, 1890–1920” in Cambridge in 1970, but her heavy involvement in gay activism forced her to put her research on hold.  She returned to the academy in the 1980s and has published articles on the [[lesbian]] reader, [[Oscar Wilde]] and the Symbolist and decadent movements of the late nineetenth and early twentieth centuries. Other academic publications include scholarly introductions to the Virago Modern Classics editions of ''Adam’s Breed'' and ''[[The Well of Loneliness]]'' by [[Radclyffe Hall]].
 
Hennegan's academic work focuses on [[lesbian]] and [[gay]] themes in English literature, particularly in British Modernism. She began writing her PhD thesis, “Literature and the Homosexual Cult, 1890–1920” in Cambridge in 1970, but her heavy involvement in gay activism forced her to put her research on hold.  She returned to the academy in the 1980s and has published articles on the [[lesbian]] reader, [[Oscar Wilde]] and the Symbolist and decadent movements of the late nineetenth and early twentieth centuries. Other academic publications include scholarly introductions to the Virago Modern Classics editions of ''Adam’s Breed'' and ''[[The Well of Loneliness]]'' by [[Radclyffe Hall]].
  
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Her work in literary journalism has included a period as Literary Editor of ''[[Gay News]]'' (1977–83), and regular articles in the ''New Statesman'' (1984–88). She has also been a prominent gay rights activist in the UK: she served as a Vice-Chair of the [[Campaign for Homosexual Equality]] (1975–77) and National Organizer for the gay counselling organization [[FRIEND]]. <ref>http://www.knittingcircle.org.uk/staffroom.html Brief biography of Hennegan at the Knitting Circle, a lesbian and gay resource website</ref>
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Her work in literary journalism has included a period as Literary Editor of ''[[Gay News]]'' (1977–83), and regular articles in the ''New Statesman'' (1984–88). She has also been a prominent gay rights activist in the UK: she served as a Vice-Chair of the [[Campaign for Homosexual Equality]] (1975–77) and National Organizer for the gay counselling organization [[FRIEND]]. <ref>http://www.knittingcircle.org.uk/staffroom.html Brief biography of Hennegan at [[the Knitting Circle]], a lesbian and gay resource website</ref>
  
 
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*"Victorian Girlhood: Eroticizing the Maternal, Maternalizing the Erotic: Same-Sex Relations between Girls, c. 1880-1920". in'' Children and Sexuality: From the Greeks to the Great War'', ed. George Rousseau (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)  
 
*"Victorian Girlhood: Eroticizing the Maternal, Maternalizing the Erotic: Same-Sex Relations between Girls, c. 1880-1920". in'' Children and Sexuality: From the Greeks to the Great War'', ed. George Rousseau (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)  
 
   
 
   
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*[ttp://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/about/contact_directory_profile.asp?ItemID=659 Trinity Hall Page on Alison Hennegan
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*http://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/about/contact_directory_profile.asp?ItemID=659 Trinity Hall Page on Alison Hennegan
 
*http://books.guardian.co.uk/top10s/top10/0,,447990,00.html 'Alison Hennegan's Top 10 Lesbian Books', ''The Guardian''
 
*http://books.guardian.co.uk/top10s/top10/0,,447990,00.html 'Alison Hennegan's Top 10 Lesbian Books', ''The Guardian''
 
*http://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/news/article.asp?ItemID=712 Trinity Hall names Hennegan as Fellow Commoner
 
*http://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/news/article.asp?ItemID=712 Trinity Hall names Hennegan as Fellow Commoner
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*http://www.knittingcircle.org.uk/staffroom.html Brief biography of Hennegan at the Knitting Circle, a lesbian and gay resource website.
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*https://web.archive.org/web/20080414195644/http://www.knittingcircle.org.uk/staffroom.html Brief biography of Hennegan at [[the Knitting Circle]], a lesbian and gay resource website.
 
*http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0097-9740(200221)27%3A3%3C881%3AHAHWDS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4 Hennegan, A. (2002). "Hea(r)th and Home: Wilde Domestic Space." ''Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society'', vol. 27, no.3. (JSTOR Access Required)
 
*http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0097-9740(200221)27%3A3%3C881%3AHAHWDS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4 Hennegan, A. (2002). "Hea(r)th and Home: Wilde Domestic Space." ''Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society'', vol. 27, no.3. (JSTOR Access Required)
 
*http://www.diverse.cam.ac.uk/stories/hennegan/ Cambridge & Diversity: "Alison Hennegan: speaking out"
 
*http://www.diverse.cam.ac.uk/stories/hennegan/ Cambridge & Diversity: "Alison Hennegan: speaking out"
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Alison Hennegan
Alison Hennegan is a lecturer at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow[1] of Trinity Hall. She is also a prominent campaigner for gay and lesbian rights in the UK and a journalist. [2]

Hennegan's academic work focuses on lesbian and gay themes in English literature, particularly in British Modernism. She began writing her PhD thesis, “Literature and the Homosexual Cult, 1890–1920” in Cambridge in 1970, but her heavy involvement in gay activism forced her to put her research on hold. She returned to the academy in the 1980s and has published articles on the lesbian reader, Oscar Wilde and the Symbolist and decadent movements of the late nineetenth and early twentieth centuries. Other academic publications include scholarly introductions to the Virago Modern Classics editions of Adam’s Breed and The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall.

Her work in literary journalism has included a period as Literary Editor of Gay News (1977–83), and regular articles in the New Statesman (1984–88). She has also been a prominent gay rights activist in the UK: she served as a Vice-Chair of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (1975–77) and National Organizer for the gay counselling organization FRIEND. [3]

Publications

  • 'Introduction' to Radclyffe Hall's Well of Loneliness. (Harmondsworth: Virago, 1982).
  • 'Introduction' to Radclyffe Hall's Adam's Breed. (Harmondsworth: Virago, 1986).
  • 'On Becoming a Lesbian Reader.' in Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender and Popular Fiction. by S. Radstone. (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1998) pp. 165–190.
  • ‘Personalities and Principles: Aspects of Literature and Life in 'fin-de-siecle' England’. In Fin de siecle and Its Legacy. by M. Teich and R. Porter. (Cambridge: CUP, 1990) pp. 190–215.
  • The Lesbian Pillow Book (ed.) (London: Fourth Estate, 2000)
  • "Hea[r]th and Home: Wilde Domestic Space." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 27, no.3 (2002)
  • "Suffering into Wisdom: The Tragedy of Wilde". in Tragedy in Transition, ed. Sarah Annes Brown and Catherine Silverstone, (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007)
  • "Victorian Girlhood: Eroticizing the Maternal, Maternalizing the Erotic: Same-Sex Relations between Girls, c. 1880-1920". in Children and Sexuality: From the Greeks to the Great War, ed. George Rousseau (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)

External links

References

Based on the Wikipedia article of the same name

  1. ↑ http://www.diverse.cam.ac.uk/stories/hennegan/ Cambridge & Diversity: "Alison Hennegan: speaking out"
  2. ↑ Teich, M. Porter, R. Fin de Siecle and Its Legacy (Cambridge: CUP, 1990) p. x
  3. ↑ http://www.knittingcircle.org.uk/staffroom.html Brief biography of Hennegan at the Knitting Circle, a lesbian and gay resource website
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