Amy Wells

My DPhil research is an AHRC-funded collaboration with the National Trust, exploring the stories within and around children's books in country house collections from the long nineteenth century. By drawing on my comparative and interdisciplinary background in Comparative Literature (BA), Library Science (MA) and English Literature 1830-1914 (MSt), I seek to uncover histories of reading, childhood and book culture from within the National Trust collections through looking at the intersections between the life of a book and the life of its reader.