Copyright

Alison Stone

Published On

2026-07-16

Language

  • English

Print Length

50 pages

THEMA

  • QDTQ
  • QD
  • QDTJ
  • JPA
  • JH

BISAC

  • PHI005000
  • PHI019000
  • PHI009000
  • PHI022000
  • POL028000

Keywords

  • Victorian philosophy
  • Ethics
  • Metaphysics
  • Religion
  • History
  • Feminism

14. New Attributions to Wedgwood

Chapter of: The Philosophy of Julia Wedgwood: Imperfect Antithesis

Many Wedgwood essays discussed here are attributed to her for the first time. This chapter provides my grounds for these attributions, which are archival, textual, and digital, forming a cumulative case. Evidence from archival records and correspondence is decisive when it is available. When it is not, my grounds for attribution come from the following sources: her use of initials; duplication of sentences and substantial philosophical claims across already-known and newly-attributed essays, informed by contextual knowledge about her publication activity; characteristic words and phrases identified using digital concordance software; and digital stylometry, which presents a clear clustering of essays we can attribute to Wedgwood. I then note some further uses of digital stylometry, list all my new attributions, and provide textual analyses and stylometric dendrograms regarding further attributions not already discussed.

Contributors

Alison Stone

(author)
Professor of Philosophy at Lancaster University
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9621-8263

Alison Stone is Professor of Philosophy at Lancaster University. Her most recent books are on nineteenth-century women philosophers. They are Frances Power Cobbe: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Feminist Philosopher (Oxford University Press, 2022), Frances Power Cobbe (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Oxford University Press, 2023), and Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770-1900 (Oxford University Press, 2024). With Charlotte Alderwick, she co-edited Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in Britain and America (Routledge, 2024), and with Lydia Moland, she co-edited The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century (Oxford University Press, 2025).