Jeremy Newton

Following a Masters degree at Oxford in 2013, Jeremy Newton completed his PhD in Nineteenth-Century Theatre and Culture at Birkbeck, University of London, in 2022. His thesis concerned the forgotten Victorian playwright Henry Arthur Jones (a contemporary and rival of Oscar Wilde, and a friend of Thomas Hardy), and offered a reappraisal of his importance in the history of English drama. Jeremy is a member of the Executive Committee of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association, and a regular speaker at conferences on Victorian theatre and culture. He was a keynote speaker at the Thomas Hardy Society conference in 2024, and his latest article, on Hardy’s relationship with the acting profession, is scheduled to appear in the Hardy Society Journal in 2026.