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For general audiences
- 'Review: David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu, Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs.' History Today (July 2024).
- 'Review: Abigail Williams, Reading It Wrong.' History Today (February 2024).
- ‘On the Home Front.’ History Today (May 2020).
- ‘Women at Oxford in the 18th Century.’ Exon: The Exeter College Magazine (Autumn 2019).
- ‘Doctoring the Ladies.’ History Today (August 2019).
- ‘The Favourite.’ Criticks (January 2019).
- ‘Black Sails.’ Criticks (May 2017).
Academic
Early Modern Authorship and Prose Continuations: Adaptation and Ownership from Sidney to Richardson (Palgrave Macmillan 2015).
The first in-depth account of fictional sequels in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, my monograph examines cases of fiction works being continued by multiple writers - reading them for evidence of Early Modern attitudes towards authorship, originality, and literary property.
'An intelligent and nuanced intervention in the history of authorship...an excellent piece of scholarship...well worth a space on any early modern scholar’s shelf.' (Amy D. Stackhouse, SHARP News)
'Well written and lively...a useful contribution to discourses of the history of the book.' (Marea Mitchell, Review of English Studies)
- Co-editor (Restoration), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021-2024).
- ‘Precarious and Fatiguing: Elizabeth Elstob and Women’s Intellectual Careers as Tragedy.’ English, special issue: ‘Precarity in Perspective,’ eds Kate De Rycker and Cathy Shrank. Forthcoming 2024.
- ‘Multimedia Coterie Romance.’ The Edinburgh Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel and the Arts, eds Mary Newbould and Jakob Lipski (Edinburgh University Press, 2024).
- ‘Reception: Writing Sidney.’ The Oxford Handbook of Philip Sidney, ed. Catherine Bates (Forthcoming, Oxford University Press).
- ‘Samuel Richardson’s “Murdering Pen” and the End of the Novel.’ The Birth and Death of the Author: A Multi-Authored History of Authorship, ed. Andrew Power (Routledge, 2020).
- ‘“A book that all have heard of…but that nobody reads”: Philip Sidney’s Arcadia in the Eighteenth Century.’ Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, special issue: ‘Reception and Early Modern Culture,’ ed. Marie-Louise Coolahan et al. (January 2020).
- ‘Owning The English Rogue: Commerce and Reputation in Restoration Authorship.’ Restoration (Spring 2016).
- ‘New Evidence for the Reading of Sectarian Women’s Prophecies.’ Notes & Queries (March 2013).
- ‘Passing Through Vanity Fair: The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Marketplace.’ Authorship (Dec. 2012).
- ‘Fan Fiction and the Author in the Early Seventeenth Century: The Case of Sidney’s Arcadia.’ Transformative Works and Cultures (Sept. 2012).
Reviews and reference
- ‘Hilary Havens, Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Authorship from Manuscript to Print.’ The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats (Winter 2021).
- ‘Gil Blas de Santillane’, ‘Don Alphonso Blas de Lirias’, ‘The German Gil Blas’, ‘The French Gil Blas’, ‘The English Gil Blas.’ The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820, ed. April London. Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press.
- ‘Alicia D’Anvers.’ The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
- ‘Maura Smyth, Women Writing Fancy: Authorship and Autonomy from 1611 to 1812.’ Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Fall 2019).
- ‘Talking with Books [Abigail Williams, The Social Life of Books].’ The Cambridge Quarterly (June 2018).
- ‘Kirsty Milne, At Vanity Fair: From Bunyan to Thackeray.’ Bunyan Studies (2017).
- ‘J.A. Downie, ed., The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel.’ The British Association for Romantic Studies Review (Autumn 2017).
- ‘Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith, eds., Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing.’ SHARP News (Autumn 2015).
- ‘Julie A. Eckerle, Romancing the Self in Early Modern Englishwomen’s Life Writing.’ Prose Studies (2013).
- ‘David R. Castillo, Baroque Horrors: Roots of the Fantastic in the Age of Curiosities.’ The Gothic Imagination, University of Stirling (March 2011).
Fiction
‘The Rebel Engine’ Stories in the Ether (February 2012).
‘The Ambassadors.’ Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine (Spring 2011).
One of those relatively subtle stories that has layers of meaning packaged with a mystery and action. There is a tremendous sense of place about it, as if the writer had actually been there...Perhaps we'll be hearing a lot more from Ms Simonova in the future, about the past.
- Ian Nichols
‘The Scrying-Glass of Doctor Dee.’ M-Brane SF (September 2010).
‘Last Voyage.’ Paradox: The Magazine of Historical and Speculative Fiction (Spring 2009).
Simonova...weaves a powerful yet tragic tale of heroism, self-discovery, and acceptance of one's own mortality. A fine tale well worth reading.
- The Fix
