Fiona Milne
Research Associate

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Biography

Fiona Milne completed her PhD in English at York in 2019. Her thesis was on the prosecutions of radical writers during the Romantic period. She is currently working on her first book, Romantic Character and the Law: British Radicalism and Self-Defence, 1792-1832, which explores the relationship between literary and legal histories of character in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Fiona has held research fellowships at the Huntington Library (California) and the University of Glasgow Archives and Special Collections. She has taught courses in the Department of English and Related Literature and the Centre for Lifelong Learning at York.