'In this article author argues that Hemans’s mounting dissatisfaction with her poetic vocation arose from her recognition that a disparity existed between her literary success and her artistic freedom and reputation. Although Hemans was by the late 1820s the bestselling female poet in England, her poetic content and style were nonetheless dictated, and therefore limited, by the demands of the print market. '
'Author will treat the gendered aspect of what has come to be termed “neurodiversity” and looks at the ways in which taking autism into account may reshape feminist theory and how feminist theory, in turn, can help to think of autism in more compassionate and productive ways. In particular author will argue that the recent turn to emotions in humanistic and social study, coupled with current research on the pliability of the brain and its interrelated nature, can help to form more generous ideas about both gender differences and social-emotional disability.'