By annamercer90
I’ve been away in the USA for just over three weeks on a research trip. As this trip was part-funded by the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS), I’ve written a short report on how the trip has contributed to my doctoral research, which will appear on the BARS website.
I’m also reposting the report here: it includes details of the manuscripts I went to see, and as this is my personal blog I’ve also included some photographs of my trip (unfortunately images of manuscripts can’t be posted online due to copyright, so I’ve used my pictures of the beautiful cities I went to and the libraries I worked in).
At the US Capitol, Washington D.C. (across the road from the Library of Congress)
Report for BARS Stephen Copley Postgraduate Research Award 2015
In October/November 2015 I travelled to the USA to study the manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley housed in American libraries on the East Coast. The BARS Stephen Copley Postgraduate Research Award and the University of York’s AHRC Research Travel Support Grant funded my research trip. My work as a doctoral candidate looks to define the collaborative literary relationship of Percy Bysshe and Mary …read more