Dr. Heather Nelson

2023

“I Should Force Her to Return to My House”: Consent, Restitution of Conjugal Rights, and Anthony Trollope

Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies

Knoxville, TN

Attend

Consent and Restitution in the Phineas Novels

Trollope Society

Online

Attend

2022

“We Made the Compact, and Surely We Can Cancel It”: Consent, the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857, and Victorian Divorce Novels

Works in Progress in Law and Literature

Webinar

“No Daughter of Mine Should Be Married to Any Man Alive under Such a Settlement”: Consent and The Woman in White

Nineteenth-Century Studies Association

Rochester, NY

2019

Victorian Women, Consent, and Marriage

Wednesday Morning Club

Pueblo, CO

“It’s a Great Shame She Has to Part with Anything”: Consent and The Dower Act in Victorian Drama

Unearned Wealth: A Literary History of Inheritance (1600-2015)

Aarhus University

2018

I Do?: Victorian Women, Consent, and Marriage

Cool Women, Hot Topics

Colorado State University-Pueblo

2017

Recovery from Engagements: Jilting, Actions for Breach of Promise of Marriage, and Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters

Victorians Institute

Furman University

2016

“If You Don’t Want to Live with Him Any More You Have a Right to Leave Him”: Female Consent, the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857, and the Victorian Divorce Novel

Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies

Asheville, NC

2015

“When a Daughter Elopes to Gretna, Generally It Is a Wicked Thing”: Female Consent, Clandestine Marriage, and Susannah Frances Reynolds’s Gretna Green; Or, All for Love

Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies

Atlanta, GA

2012

“Women Made a Fuss about It in Books”: A Network of Victorians against the “Consensual” Marital Rape Exemption

North American Victorian Studies Association

University of Wisconsin

2010

“Keeping Them Ignorant Who I Was”: Performativity and Colonialism in The Female American

Society of Early Americanists

Flagler College

“You Could Be Judas”: A Black Slaveowner in Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson

Society for the Study of Southern Literature

New Orleans, LA

2007

Teaching Jane Austen in a Preparatory School

Jane Austen Society of North America—North Carolina

Raleigh, NC

2006

“Till This Moment, I Never Knew Myself”: Developing Self, Love, and Art in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma

Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States

Pepperdine University