8.
‘The Foe Within: Treason in Lancastrian Normandy’ in Soldiers, Noblemen and
Gentlemen edited by Peter Coss and Christopher Tyerman (The Boydell Press,
2009), pp. 305-20: ISBN: 9781843834861
Juliet says: “I was thrilled to be asked to
contribute to this volume of essays in honour of Maurice Keen, the
inspirational teacher of my undergraduate days at Oxford and the guiding hand
in researching and writing my doctoral thesis, who had just retired from his
post at Balliol. When I saw the list of other contributors, however, I was
thoroughly intimidated. My article drew on my research for Conquest and offers
an insight into the hows and whys of treason during the thirty years the
English ruled northern France.”
7.
‘The Haworth Context’ in The Cambridge Companion to the Brontës edited by Heather Glen (Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 13-33: ISBN:
0-521-77027-0; 0-521-77971-5
6.
‘Saintliness, Treason and Plot: The Writing of Mrs Gaskell’s Life of
Charlotte Brontë’ in Brontë Society Transactions, 21 (1994), pt. 4,
pp. 101-15.
Juliet says: “This was the address I gave to the
Brontë Society just before the publication of my biography The Brontës. The BBC
were there filming it and told me afterwards that a number of people had walked
out because they were so shocked by what was then my first public declaration
of my radical reinterpretation of the Brontës’ lives and Mrs Gaskell’s
biography! Once they’d read the greater detail of the biography, however,
almost all Brontë Society members became incredibly supportive.”
5. ‘A Possible Portrait of William Weightman’ in Brontë
Society Transactions, 19 (1987), pt. 4, pp. 175-6.
Juliet says: “When re-cataloguing the
collections at the Brontë Parsonage Museum I found a drawing attributed to
Branwell: it seemed obvious to me from its style that it was actually by
Charlotte and likely, from clues in the picture itself, that its subject was
her father’s curate William Weightman, whose portrait she is known to have
taken. This article demonstrates why.”
4.
‘ “Innocent and Un-Londony”: Impressions of Charlotte Brontë’ in Brontë
Society Transactions, 19 (1986), pts. 1-2, pp. 44-9.
Juliet says: “As curator and librarian
of the Brontë Parsonage Museum one of my tasks was to draw attention to new
material. This is my transcript of a lovely letter by Lucy Martineau describing
the first meeting between her husband’s cousin, the authoress Harriet
Martineau, and Charlotte Brontë, whose identity and sex were then a closely
guarded secret.”
3.
‘Subdued Expectations: Charlotte Brontë’s Marriage Settlement’ in Brontë
Society Transactions, 19 (1986), pts. 1-2, pp. 33-9.
Juliet says: “A typical example of the many
manuscripts in the Brontë Parsonage Museum whose significance had been
completely over-looked. The marriage settlement revealed Charlotte’s doubts
before her marriage by leaving everything to her father, rather than her future
husband, if she died childless. Nine months later, Charlotte left everything to
her husband in the will she made just before she died, reflecting the
unexpected happiness she had found in her marriage.
2. ‘Charlotte Brontë’s Photograph’ in Brontë
Society Transactions, 19 (1986), pts. 1-2, pp. 27-8.
Juliet says: “I wrote this in the
first flush of enthusiasm but since then have less confidence that it is
actually a photo of Charlotte. The arguments still hold good but another photo,
still regularly touted as being that of Charlotte, is definitely one of either
Ellen or Mercy Nussey. If this belongs to the same sitting, then it might not
be Charlotte after all. Room for doubt, I think.”
1.
Juliet Barker and Maurice Keen, ‘The Medieval English Kings and the Tournament’
in Das Ritterliche Turnier im Mittelalter edited by Josef Fleckenstein
(Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 1985), pp. 212-28: ISBN: 3-525-35396-0
Juliet says: “Maurice Keen generously
put my name to this article because it drew on the research I had done for my
doctorate which he supervised. However, he wrote it and I really had nothing to
do with it except bask in the reflected glory of being associated with one of
the greatest of all medievalists and chivalric historians. Possibly the best
way of writing for publication – but certainly the easiest!”
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