About
Professor Jenny Hartley is currently Head of English and Creative Writing at Roehampton.
Her most recent book, 'Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen
Women', came out in hardback from Methuen in 2008 and paperback in
December 2009. Described as 'brilliant' by Claire Tomalin, Jenny's book
follows the progress of the young women whom Dickens rescued from the
streets and prisons of London, and welcomed into the Home for Fallen
Women, which he set up and ran for over a decade in Shepherd's Bush.
Jenny is working with colleague Sarah Turvey on their prison reading groups
project. They have both run reading groups in prisons for many years,
and now they are being funded by the AHRC, in a Knowledge Transfer
Fellowship in partnership with the Prisoners' Education Trust, to set up
ten more groups in prisons around the country. For more on this, see
wwww. Roehampton.ac.uk/prg.
Jenny has published in a number of journals, magazines and
newspapers. She has also appeared on BBC radio book programmes, and
given papers at conferences in Australia, France, Finland, as well as
here in the UK.
Research Projects Undertaken
Supervison:
Three of Jenny's PhD students have recently completed their PhDs
successfully. Jenny is happy to receive enquiries from applicants
thinking of working in her areas of expertise.