BA (University of Nottingham), MA (University of Nottingham), PhD (University of Nottingham)
Senior Operations Officer (PhD Support)
E-mail: Darcie.Mawby1@nottingham.ac.ukTel: +44 (0) 115 8466976
Location: B12 (North Building, Jubilee Campus)
I joined the NUBS Core Operations, Research and Knowledge Exchange Team after completing my PhD in History at the University of Nottingham in 2022.
Areas of ExpertiseMy thesis was entitled "Gender, Conflict, and Identity in Women's Accounts of the Crimean War". More broadly, I am interested in nineteenth-century gender history, the relationship between gender and war, society and culture in nineteenth-century Britain, women's autobiographical writing, and nursing history.
Frances Duberly: a failed Crimean heroine?
Article based on my PhD research, available open access. Frances Duberly aimed to address a nation enraptured by the Crimean War (1853–1856) in her 1855 Journal Kept During the Russian War. Travelling with her officer husband and living amongst the army for two years, she wrote as a self-professed authority on the conflict and constructed herself as a ‘Crimean heroine’. Duberly attempted to secure her own sense of belonging, which existed in tension with many contemporary social standards, by presenting the publication of her Journal as a patriotic act and constructing herself in terms of an extension of the soldiers’ heroism. However, that patriotic display proved fragile and problematic in the face of a competing narrative of feminine heroism, constructed around Florence Nightingale, which dominated the public consciousness.
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The Crimean War
Entry in the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing.
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Nursing Lives in the Crimean War
A blog post based on my PhD research, written for the University of Nottingham's Florence Nightingale Comes Home for 2020 Project
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