Professor of Victorian Literature, Queen Mary University of London
Catherine Maxwell is professor of Victorian literature at Queen Mary University of London. Her monographs include The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness (2001) and Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature (2008). Her latest book is Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture (Oxford University Press, 2017).