Emeritus Professor John Maynard is a Worimi Aboriginal man from the Port Stephens region of New South Wales. He has held several major positions and served on numerous prominent organisations and committees including, Deputy Chairperson of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) and the Executive Committee of the Australian Historical Association. He was the recipient of the Aboriginal History (Australian National University) Stanner Fellowship in 1996, the New South Wales Premiers Indigenous History Fellow 2003, Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow 2004, University of Newcastle Researcher of the Year 2008 and 2012. In 2014 he was elected a member of the prestigious Australian Social Sciences Academy and in 2020 made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He gained his PhD in 2003, examining the rise of early Aboriginal political activism. He has worked with and within many Aboriginal communities, urban, rural, and remote. Professor Maynard's publications have concentrated on the intersections of Aboriginal political and social history, and the history of Australian race relations.
Preface
Introduction: The worlds of Victorian sexuality
1. Coming of age in the nineteenth century
2. Charlotte on the couch: the perils of posthumous analysis
3. Exploring sexuality: life in the world below
4. Problematics of a sexual success story: The Professor
5. Sexual awakening in the romance world: Jane Eyre
6. Brontë and her society: censorship and sexual literature
7. Women, society and sexuality: Shirley
8. Complexities of sexual awakening in the realistic world: Villette
Appendix: The diagnosis of Charlotte Brontë's final illness
Notes
Index.
