Kathryn Ledbetter is Associate Professor of English at Texas State University-San Marcos, teaching courses in nineteenth-century British literature, freshman composition, and technical communications. She earned a Ph.D at the University of South Carolina in Columbia (1995) and an MA at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte (1990). Dr. Ledbetter also has many years of professional experience as a radio broadcaster and freelance writer, with articles in a variety of popular magazines and newspapers. She is editor of Victorian Periodicals Review, and former editor of The Journal of Texas Music History for Texas State's Center for Texas Music History.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
"Colour'd Shadows": Contexts in Publishing, Printing, and Reading Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers , with Terence Hoagwood of Texas A & M University. Palgrave/Macmillan (2005).
The Keepsake (1829). A facsimile reproduction and introduction, with Terence Hoagwood. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1999.
Articles
"Protesting Success: Tennyson's Year of 'Indecent Exposure' in the Periodicals." Victorian Poetry 43:1 (Spring, 2005): 53-73.
"Bonnets and Rebellions: Imperialism in the Lady's Newspaper Victorian Periodicals Review. 37:3 (Fall 2004).
"The 'Copper and Steel Manufactory' of Charles Heath." Victorian Review. 28:2 (1999). Published 2003.
"Domesticity Betrayed: The Keepsake Literary Annual." The Victorian Newsletter 99 (Spring 2001): 16-24.
"White Vellum and Gilt Edges: Imaging The Keepsake." Studies in the Literary Imagination 30:1 (Spring 1997): 35-49.
"`BeGemmed and BeAmuletted': Tennyson and Those `Vapid' Gift Books." Victorian Poetry 34:2 (Summer 1996): 235-45.
"Battles for Modernism and Wheels." Journal of Modern Literature 29:2 (Fall 1995): 322-27.
"Lucrative Requests: British Authors and Gift Book Editors." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 88:2 (June 1994): 207-16.
"`A Woman of Undoubted Genius': Mary Robinson and S. T. Coleridge." Postscript 11(Winter 1993): 43-49.
"Boyle's An Index to the Annuals: Some Proofing Suggestions." Victorian Periodicals Review 26:3 (Fall 1993): 153-55.
Other Publications
"L. E. L.’s `Verses’ and The Keepsake of 1829." Hypertext edition of a Keepsake poem (and commentary), with Terence Hoagwood and Martin Matthew Jacobsen. Romantic Circles scholarly web site. Fall 1998. http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/lel/keepcov.htm.
"Caroline Norton" and "Maria Edgeworth." Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Short-Fiction Writers, 1800-1880. Ed. John R. Greenfield. Vol. 159. Detroit: Gale Research, 1996. 106-15. 242-49.
"Violet Hunt." Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Short-Fiction Writers, 1915-1945. Ed. John H. Rogers. Vol. 162. Detroit: Gale Research, 1996. 140-48.
A Woman's Gift: Literary Annuals of the Nineteenth Century. Columbia, SC: Thomas Cooper Society, 1994. 20 pp. Catalogue to an exhibition of literary annuals, with Lee McDavid.
Rev. of Seven Gothic Dramas, 1789-1825, ed. Jeffrey N. Cox. South Central Review 10:4 (Winter 1994): 86-87.
Rev. of Romanticism and Gender, by Anne K. Mellor. Nineteenth-Century Contexts 17:2 (Winter 1993): 291-94.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
"Resistance and Commondification: Tennyson's Partnership with Victorian Periodicals." Modern Language Association Conference. Washington, D.C., December 2005.
"'Chaunted and Recitatived': Tennyson as Poet Laureate." Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States Conference. Albuquerque, NM, October 2005.
"War Scares and Patriot-Soldiers: Tennyson's Political Poetry in Victorian Periodicals." Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Conference. Washington, D.C., September 2005.
"Tennyson and Victorian Periodicals: Commodities in Context." Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing Conference. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. July 2005.
"Tennyson and the Periodicals." Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Conference. Gent, Belgium. July 2004.
"Amalgamating the 'Broad Gauge of Fancy with the Narrow Gauge of Fact': The Man in the Moon." Research Society for Victorian Periodicals conference. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, September 2003.
"Bonnets and Rebellions in *The Lady's Newspaper.*" Victorian Interdiscplinary Studies Association of the Western United States Conference. Boise, ID, October 2002.
"Scandal as Commodity and the 'Calumniated Woman.'" Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, August 2002.
"Persian Lovers and Faithful Servants: Imperialism in Literary Annuals." Victorian Interdisciplinary Association of the Western United States (VISAWUS), Los Angeles, CA, October, 2001.
"Literary Annuals and Victorian Women Writers." Conference on 18th and 19th-Century British Women Writers, Lawrence, KS, March, 2001.
"The 'Copper and Steel Manufactory' of Nineteenth-Century Engravers." Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States (VISAWUS) conference, Los Angeles, CA, October 2000.
"Advertising the Annuals: Victorian Periodicals and Gift Book Promotion." Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, Vancouver, B. C., July 1998.
"The Keepsake’s Women Editors: Competitive Tactics." University of Tulsa’s Eleventh Annual Comparative Literature Symposium: British Women’s Writing/Political Discourse, 1640-1867. Tulsa, OK, March 1997.
"`Simpering Misses' and Middle-Class Fantasy: Reading The Keepsake." Popular Culture Association Conference, San Antonio, TX, March 1997.
"Deviant Complaints: Women Writers in The Keepsake." Conference on 18th and 19th-Century British Woman Writers, Columbia, SC, March 1996.
"`BeGemmed and BeAmuletted': Tennyson and Those `Vapid' Gift Books." Tennyson Society panel, "Tennyson and the Romantics," Modern Language Association Convention Toronto, December 1993.
"Gift Book Beauties: Lady Blessington as Editor of the Annuals." Modern Language Association Convention Toronto, December 1993.
"Elizabeth Gaskell's `Misguided Notions' and Reviewers of Mary Barton." Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, October 1993.
"Fraser's 'Calumniated Women' and Scandal as Commodity." Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. New York City, September, 2001.