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I am Ailsa Boyd, an independent researcher in art, design, literature and culture historian with a particular interest in the long nineteenth century. I have been a research assistant in several major research projects at the University of Glasgow, a curator and gallery assistant at The Collins Gallery, University of Strathclyde.

Current research

I am currently writing a book on the literature and life of George Eliot, Henry James and Edith Wharton, and the architects they worked with: Owen Jones, Basil Champneys, Edward Prioloeau Warren, Ogden Codman.

Research interests

• 19th century interior design
• 19th century literature
• Women artists and designers
• Scottish art
• Beatrix Whistler
• James McNeill Whistler

Publications

'Something vibrates back': Whistler and Henry James (2010)