2024
Arts for health's sake: Mapping innovation in arts provision in the Liverpool City Region (Chapter)
Billington, J., Balabanova, E., Worsley, J., Anisimovich, A., & Chapple, M. (2024). Arts for health's sake: Mapping innovation in arts provision in the Liverpool City Region. In Creative approaches to wellbeing: The pandemic and beyond (pp. 204-224).
Arts for health’s sake (Chapter)
Billington, J., Balabanova, E., Worsley, J., Anisimovich, A., & Chapple, M. (2024). Arts for health’s sake. In Creative approaches to wellbeing. Manchester University Press. doi:10.7765/9781526172600.00019DOI: 10.7765/9781526172600.00019
SHARED: Seeing Arts Health Research Enacted (Digital Anthology of International Best Practice) (Other)
Billington, J., Asquith, W., Anisimovich, A., & Snowden-Leak, R. (2024). SHARED: Seeing Arts Health Research Enacted (Digital Anthology of International Best Practice).
Billington, J. (2024). Literary Realism and Mental Breakdown. In A. Elsner, & M. Pietrzak-Franger (Eds.), Literature and Medicine Cambridge Critical Concepts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2023
Music and Health (Media)
Billington, J., Anisimovich, A., Chapple, M., Worsley, J., Hopson, N., & Howard, C. (2023). Music and Health. [Audio-video].
Liverpool Art of Care: LivCare (Other)
Asquith, W., Anisimovich, A., Balabanova, E., Billington, J., Worsley, J., & Snowden-Leak, R. (2023). Liverpool Art of Care: LivCare.
Lingwood, J., Lampropoulou, S., De Bezenac, C., Billington, J., & Rowland, C. (2022). Children's engagement and caregivers' use of language-boosting strategies during shared book reading: A mixed methods approach. JOURNAL OF CHILD LANGUAGE. doi:10.1017/S0305000922000290DOI: 10.1017/S0305000922000290
Billington, J. (2023). ‘Solitude in any wide scene impressed her with an undefined feeling of immeasurable existence aloof from her' (George Eliot, Daniel Deronda). In A Space of Their Own (pp. 129-142). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003270102-14DOI: 10.4324/9781003270102-14
Chapple, M., Anisimovich, A., Worsley, J., Watkins, M., Billington, J., & Balabanova, E. (2023). Come together: The importance of arts and cultural engagement within the Liverpool City Region throughout the COVID-19 lockdown periods. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1011771DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1011771
Chapple, M., Davis, P., Billington, J., & Corcoran, R. (2023). Exploring the different cognitive, emotional and imaginative experiences of autistic and non-autistic adult readers when contemplating serious literature as compared to non-fiction. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, 14. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1001268DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1001268
2022
Liverpool's Arts Scene: A COVID-19 Life Support Network (Media)
Billington, J., Balabanova, E., & Worsley, J. (2022). Liverpool's Arts Scene: A COVID-19 Life Support Network. [Magazine].
Liverpool's arts providers are unsung heroes of the COVID crisis (Media)
Billington, J., Balabanova, E., & Worsley, J. (2022). Liverpool's arts providers are unsung heroes of the COVID crisis. [Newspaper article].
Liverpool’s unsung COVID heroes: how the city’s arts scene became a life support network (Media)
Billington, J., Balabanova, E., & Worsley, J. (2022). Liverpool’s unsung COVID heroes: how the city’s arts scene became a life support network. [Academic magazine].
Anisimovich, A., Chapple, M., Worsley, J., Watkins, M., Billington, J., & Balabanova, E. (n.d.). Back to live: Returning to in-person engagement with arts and culture in the Liverpool City Region. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1011766DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1011766
Worsley, J., Billington, J., Balabanova, E., & Chapple, M. (2022). Lifting lockdown: Renewed access to arts and cultural activities. BMC PUBLIC HEALTH, 22(1). doi:10.1186/s12889-022-14282-7DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-14282-7
COVID-19 CARE: Culture and the Arts, from Restriction to Enhancement: Protecting Mental Health in the Liverpool City Region (Media)
Balabanova, E., Billington, J., Worsley, J., Asquith, W., Anisimovich, A., Snowden-Leak, R., . . . Watkins, M. (n.d.). COVID-19 CARE: Culture and the Arts, from Restriction to Enhancement: Protecting Mental Health in the Liverpool City Region. Retrieved from http://www.livcare.org.uk/
COVID-19 CARE: Culture and the Arts, from Restriction to Enhancement: Protecting Mental Health in the Liverpool City Region (Report)
Balabanova, E., Billington, J., Worsley, J., Anisimovich, A., Chapple, M., & Watkins, M. (2022). COVID-19 CARE: Culture and the Arts, from Restriction to Enhancement: Protecting Mental Health in the Liverpool City Region.
Worsley, J., Billington, J., Balabanova, E., & Watkins, M. (2022). Regional Innovation in Arts Provision Spawned by COVID-19: "It Became a Lifeline for a Lot of People Who Are Stuck at Home". FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH, 10. doi:10.3389/fpubh.2022.753973DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.753973
Billington, J., Balabanova, E., Worsley, J., Anisimovich, A., Chapple, M., & Watkins, M. (2022). The Mental Health Impact of Restricted Access to Arts and Culture: The Mental Health Impact of Restricted Access to Arts and Culture.
Chapple, M., Davis, P., Billington, J., Williams, S., & Corcoran, R. (n.d.). Challenging Empathic Deficit Models of Autism Through Responses to Serious Literature. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.828603DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.828603
Davis, P., Corcoran, R., Billington, J., & Frank, A. (2023). Editorial: Reading, literature, and psychology in action. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, 13. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1068030DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1068030
2021
Billington, J. (2021). The Uses of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Literary Reading Groups. In V. Camden (Ed.), Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Billington, J., & Steenberg, M. (2021). Literary Reading and Mental Wellbeing. In Handbook of Empirical Literary Studies (pp. 393-420). De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783110645958-016DOI: 10.1515/9783110645958-016
Chapple, M., Williams, S., Billington, J., Davis, P., & Corcoran, R. (2021). An analysis of the reading habits of autistic adults compared to neurotypical adults and implications for future interventions. RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, 115. doi:10.1016/j.ridd.2021.104003DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2021.104003
Chapple, M., Davis, P., Billington, J., Myrick, J. A., Ruddock, C., & Corcoran, R. (n.d.). Overcoming the Double Empathy Problem Within Pairs of Autistic and Non-autistic Adults Through the Contemplation of Serious Literature. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.708375DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.708375
The Mental Health Impact of Restricted Access to Arts and Culture (Other)
Billington, J., Balabanova, K., & Worsley, J. (2021). The Mental Health Impact of Restricted Access to Arts and Culture.
Solnick, S., Povall, S., Billington, J., Ross-Williams, R., & Rotheram, C. (n.d.). The Life Rooms at The Liverpool Playhouse Theatre: Preliminary evaluation of the pilot: The Life Rooms at The Liverpool Playhouse Theatre: Preliminary evaluation of the pilot. Retrieved from https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/
2020
Billington, J., & Davis, P. (2020). ‘A bolt is shot back somewhere in the breast’ (Matthew Arnold, ‘The Buried Life’): A methodology for literary reading. In The Edinburgh History of Reading. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Lingwood, J., Billington, J., & Rowland, C. (2020). Evaluating the Effectiveness of a 'Real-World' Shared Reading Intervention for Preschool Children and Their Families: A Randomised Controlled Trial. Journal of Research in Reading. doi:10.1111/1467-9817.12301DOI: 10.1111/1467-9817.12301
Lingwood, J., Levy, R., Billington, J., & Rowland, C. (2020). Barriers and solutions to participation in family-based education interventions. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY, 23(2), 185-198. doi:10.1080/13645579.2019.1645377DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2019.1645377
Davis, P., & Billington, J. (2020). Reading. In P. Crawford, B. Brown, & A. Charise (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities (pp. 282-287). London: Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/
Billington, J. (2020). Inner Voices: Literary Realism and Psychoanalysis. In J. Ros Velasco (Ed.), The Faces of Depression in Literature. New York: Peter Lang.
2019
The Victorian Novel: Laying the Foundations for ‘Bibliotherapy’ (Chapter)
Farrington, G., Davis, P., & Billington, J. (2019). The Victorian Novel: Laying the Foundations for ‘Bibliotherapy’. In J. Billington (Ed.), Reading and Mental Health (pp. 47-68). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-21762-4_4DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-21762-4_4
Introduction (Chapter)
Billington, J. (2019). Introduction. In Reading and Mental Health (pp. 1-11). Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-21762-4_1DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-21762-4_1
Linguistic Approaches (Chapter)
Lampropoulou, S., Koleva, K., Harvey, K., Brookes, G., Billington, J., & Davis, P. (2019). Linguistic Approaches. In READING AND MENTAL HEALTH (pp. 241-263). doi:10.1007/978-3-030-21762-4_11DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-21762-4_11
Qualitative Methodologies I: Using Established Qualitative Methods in Research on Reading and Health (Chapter)
Robinson, J., Billington, J., Gray, E., & Chapple, M. (2019). Qualitative Methodologies I: Using Established Qualitative Methods in Research on Reading and Health. In READING AND MENTAL HEALTH (pp. 155-190). doi:10.1007/978-3-030-21762-4_9DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-21762-4_9
Qualitative Methods II: Developing Innovative Qualitative Approaches in Research on Reading and Health (Chapter)
Billington, J., Davis, P., Farrington, G., Green, K., Magee, F., Steenberg, M., & Tangeraas, T. M. (2019). Qualitative Methods II: Developing Innovative Qualitative Approaches in Research on Reading and Health. In READING AND MENTAL HEALTH (pp. 191-240). doi:10.1007/978-3-030-21762-4_10DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-21762-4_10
Quantitative Methods (Chapter)
Billington, J., Corcoran, R., Watkins, M., Steenberg, M., Christiansen, C., Ladegaard, N., & Kuiken, D. (2019). Quantitative Methods. In READING AND MENTAL HEALTH (pp. 265-292). doi:10.1007/978-3-030-21762-4_12DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-21762-4_12
Reading and Mental Health (Book)
Billington, J. (Ed.) (2019). Reading and Mental Health (1 ed.). London: Palgrave. Retrieved from https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030217617
Reading in Prisons Alexis McNay, Charles Darby-Villis and Ann Walmsley in interview with Josie Billington (Chapter)
Mcnay, A., Darby-Villis, C., Billington, J., & Walmsley, A. (2019). Reading in Prisons Alexis McNay, Charles Darby-Villis and Ann Walmsley in interview with Josie Billington. In READING AND MENTAL HEALTH (pp. 111-133). doi:10.1007/978-3-030-21762-4_7DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-21762-4_7
Correction to: Quantitative Methods (Chapter)
Billington, J., Corcoran, R., Watkins, M., Steenberg, M., Christiansen, C., Ladegaard, N., & Kuiken, D. (2019). Correction to: Quantitative Methods. In Reading and Mental Health (pp. c1). Springer Nature. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-21762-4_22DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-21762-4_22
Introduction (Chapter)
Billington, J. (2019). Introduction. In Reading and Mental Health (pp. 1-11). Springer Nature. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-21762-4_1DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-21762-4_1
Quantitative Methods (Sept, 10.1007/978-3-030-21762-4_12, 2019) (Chapter)
Billington, J., Corcoran, R., Watkins, M., Steenberg, M., Christiansen, C., Ladegaard, N., & Kuiken, D. (2019). Quantitative Methods (Sept, 10.1007/978-3-030-21762-4_12, 2019). In READING AND MENTAL HEALTH (pp. C1). doi:10.1007/978-3-030-21762-4_22DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-21762-4_22
Reading and Mental Health Introduction (Chapter)
Billington, J. (2019). Reading and Mental Health Introduction. In READING AND MENTAL HEALTH (pp. 1-11). doi:10.1007/978-3-030-21762-4_1DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-21762-4_1
2018
Review Title, Review of 'For Better, For Worse: Marriage in Victorian Novels by Women' by Carolyn Lambert and Marion Shaw (eds), New York and London: Routledge, 2018, pp. 217. ISBN: 978-1-138-28564-4 (Book Review)
Billington, J. (2018). Review Title, Review of 'For Better, For Worse: Marriage in Victorian Novels by Women' by Carolyn Lambert and Marion Shaw (eds), New York and London: Routledge, 2018, pp. 217. ISBN: 978-1-138-28564-4. Gaskell Society Journal, 32.
Evaluating the effectiveness of a ‘real-world’ shared reading intervention for preschool children and their families: A randomised controlled trial. (Preprint)
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/habg9
Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford (Book)
Billington, J. (Ed.) (2018). Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford (First ed.). London: Pan Macmillan.
21st Century Oxford Authors
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Writings (Scholarly edition)
Davis, P. (2018). 21st Century Oxford AuthorsElizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Writings. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Reading and Chronic Pain (Chapter)
Billington, J., Jones, A., & Humphreys, A. L. (2018). Reading and Chronic Pain. In T. Stickler (Ed.), Arts, Health and Wellbeing: A Theoretical Enquiry. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2017
Billington, J. (2017). The Sonnet and the Student in the World. The Use of English, 69(1), 23-31.
McCown, D., & Billington, J. (2017). Correspondence: Sitting and Reading asTwo Routes to Community. Journal of Contemplative Inquiry, 4(1), 165-185.
Billington, J. (2017). Forget Me Not. The Reader.
Billington, J., Farrington, G., Lampropoulou, S., Lingwood, J., Jones, A., Ledson, J., . . . Humphreys, A. -L. (2017). A comparative study of cognitive behavioural therapy and shared reading for chronic pain.. BMJ Journal of Medical Humanities, 43(3), 155-165. doi:10.1136/medhum-2016-011047DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2016-011047
Meanings of Pain, edited by Simon van Rysewyk. Springer International Publishing, 2016, 401 pages. (Book Review)
Billington, J., Jones, A., & Ledson, J. (n.d.). Meanings of Pain, edited by Simon van Rysewyk. Springer International Publishing, 2016, 401 pages.. BMJ Journal of Medical Humanities.
The Connell Guide to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Book)
Billington, J. (2017). The Connell Guide to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1 ed.). London: Connell Guides Publishing Ltd.
Billington, J. (2017). Fresh Strange Music: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Language.. REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES, 68(283), 190-192. doi:10.1093/res/hgw090DOI: 10.1093/res/hgw090
Billington, J. (2017). The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical HumanitiesThe Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities, edited by Anne Whitehead and Angela Woods (general editors) with Sarah Atkinson, Jane Macnaughton and Jennifer Richards (associate editors). Published by Edinburgh University Press, 2016.. Journal of Medical Humanities.
Margaret Oliphant, The Ladies Lindores Part VI (Book)
Billington, J. (Ed.) (2017). Margaret Oliphant, The Ladies Lindores Part VI (Vol. 24). London: Pickering and Chatto.
2016
Billington, J., Longden, E., & Robinson, J. (2016). A literature-based intervention for women prisoners: preliminary findings. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRISONER HEALTH, 12(4), 230-243. doi:10.1108/IJPH-09-2015-0031DOI: 10.1108/IJPH-09-2015-0031
Billington, J. (2016). On Not Concluding: Realist Prose as Practical Reason in Gaskell's Wives and Daughters. The Gaskell Soceity Journal.
Davis, P., & Billington, J. (2016). The Very Grief a Cure of the Disease. CHANGING ENGLISH-STUDIES IN CULTURE AND EDUCATION, 23(4), 396-408. doi:10.1080/1358684X.2016.1194188DOI: 10.1080/1358684X.2016.1194188
Is Literature Healthy? (Book)
Billington, J. (2016). Is Literature Healthy? (First ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://global.oup.com/
Making sense of mental health difficulties through live reading: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experience of being in a Reader Group (Journal article)
Gray, E., Kiemle, G., Davis, P., & Billington, J. (2016). Making sense of mental health difficulties through live reading: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experience of being in a Reader Group. ARTS & HEALTH, 8(3), 248-261. doi:10.1080/17533015.2015.1121883DOI: 10.1080/17533015.2015.1121883
The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part VI Volume 24: The Ladies Lindores (Book)
Billington, J. (Ed.) (2016). The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part VI Volume 24: The Ladies Lindores (First ed.). London: Taylor and Francis. Retrieved from https://www.crcpress.com/
Longden, E., Davis, P., Carroll, J., Billington, J., & Kinderman, P. (2016). An evaluation of shared reading groups for adults living with dementia: preliminary findings. JOURNAL OF PUBLIC MENTAL HEALTH, 15(2), 75-82. doi:10.1108/JPMH-06-2015-0023DOI: 10.1108/JPMH-06-2015-0023
A Comparison of Shared Reading and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Chronic Pain (Report)
Billington, J., Farrington, G., Jones, A., Ledson, J., Lampropoulou, S., Humphreys, A. L., . . . Lingwood, J. (2016). A Comparison of Shared Reading and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Chronic Pain.
Billington, J., Humphreys, A. L., Jones, A., & McDonnell, K. (2016). A literature-based intervention for people with chronic pain. ARTS & HEALTH, 8(1), 13-31. doi:10.1080/17533015.2014.957330DOI: 10.1080/17533015.2014.957330
2015
O'Sullivan, N., Davis, P., Billington, J., Gonzalez-Diaz, V., & Corcoran, R. (2015). “Shall I compare thee”: The neural basis of literary awareness, and its benefits to cognition. Cortex, 73, 144-157. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2015.08.014DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.08.014
Scenes of Clerical Life (Book)
Eliot, G. (2015). Scenes of Clerical Life. T. A. Noble, & J. Billington (Eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Longden, E., Davis, P., Billington, J., Lampropoulou, S., Farrington, G., Magee, F., . . . Corcoran, R. (2015). Shared Reading: assessing the intrinsic value of a literature-based health intervention. Medical Humanities, 41(02), 113-120. doi:10.1136/medhum-2015-010704DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2015-010704
Gaskell's 'Rooted' Prose Realism (Chapter)
Billington, J. (2015). Gaskell's 'Rooted' Prose Realism. In E. Morris, S. Gruver Moore, & L. Scholl (Eds.), Place, Progress and Personhood in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (pp. 250pp). Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
Reading and Writing Short Fiction: Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot (Journal article)
Billington, J. (2015). Reading and Writing Short Fiction: Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot. The Gaskell Journal, 29, 24-36.
2014
'Cultural Value: Assessing the intrinsic value of The Reader Organisation's Shared Reading Scheme' (Report)
Billington, J., Davis, P., Corcoran, R., Farrington, G., Lampropoulou, S., & Gonzalez-Diaz, V. (2014). 'Cultural Value: Assessing the intrinsic value of The Reader Organisation's Shared Reading Scheme'.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning; 21st Century Oxford Authors (Book)
Billington, J., & Davis, P. (Eds.) (2014). Elizabeth Barrett Browning; 21st Century Oxford Authors. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://global.oup.com/academic/product/elizabeth-barrett-browning-9780199602889
‘An Evaluation of a Literature-Based Intervention for People with Chronic Pain’ (Report)
Billington, J., Humphreys, A. L., & Jones, A. (2014). ‘An Evaluation of a Literature-Based Intervention for People with Chronic Pain’.
Connell Guide to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (Book)
Billington, J. (2014). Connell Guide to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1 ed.). London: The Connell Guides.
Jane Eyre: Connell Guides (Book)
Billington, J. (2014). Jane Eyre: Connell Guides. J. Connell (Ed.), London: Short Books.
Modernizing George Eliot: The Writer as Artist, Intellectual, Proto-Modernist, Cultural Critic (Journal article)
Billington, J. (2014). Modernizing George Eliot: The Writer as Artist, Intellectual, Proto-Modernist, Cultural Critic. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW, 109, 502-503. doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.109.2.0502DOI: 10.5699/modelangrevi.109.2.0502
On Kinship: Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (Journal article)
Billington, J. (2014). On Kinship: Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. The Reader, 53, 68-71.
Review, Modernizing George Eliot: The Writer as Artist, Intellectual, Proto-Modernist (Book Review)
Billington, J. (2014). Review, Modernizing George Eliot: The Writer as Artist, Intellectual, Proto-Modernist. Modern Language Review, 109(2), 502.
2013
Billington, J., Carroll, J., Davis, P., Healey, C., & Kinderman, P. (2013). A literature-based intervention for older people living with dementia. PERSPECTIVES IN PUBLIC HEALTH, 133(3), 165-173. doi:10.1177/1757913912470052DOI: 10.1177/1757913912470052
Margaret Oliphant Novellas Vol 10 Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant ed. by Joanne Shattock and Elisabeth Jay (Book)
Billington, J. (Ed.) (2013). Margaret Oliphant Novellas Vol 10 Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant ed. by Joanne Shattock and Elisabeth Jay (1 ed.). London: Pickering & Chatto.
Reading as participatory art: An alternative mental health therapy (Journal article)
Billington, J., Davis, P., & Farrington, G. (2013). Reading as participatory art: An alternative mental health therapy. Journal of Arts & Communities, 5(1), 25-40. doi:10.1386/jaac.5.1.25_1DOI: 10.1386/jaac.5.1.25_1
‘An Evaluation of a Pilot Study of a Literature-Based Intervention with Women in Prison’, (Report)
Billington, J., & Robinson, J. (2013). ‘An Evaluation of a Pilot Study of a Literature-Based Intervention with Women in Prison’,.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 21st Century Oxford Authors (Book)
Billington, J. (Ed.) (2013). Elizabeth Barrett Browning 21st Century Oxford Authors. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Family and Kinship (Chapter)
Billington, J. (2013). Family and Kinship. In M. Harris (Ed.), George Eliot in Context (pp. 251-272). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Margaret Oliphant, Novellas (Book)
Billington, J. (Ed.) (2013). Margaret Oliphant, Novellas (Vol. 10). London: Taylor & Francis.
The Victorian Sonnet (Chapter)
Billington, J. (2013). The Victorian Sonnet. In J. John (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies Online (pp. n/a). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
What is Creative Reading (Journal article)
Billington, J. (2013). What is Creative Reading. Lapidus. Retrieved from http://www.lapidus.org.uk/
Willing Surrender: Thomas Hardy's 'At Castle Boterel' (Journal article)
Billington, J. (2013). Willing Surrender: Thomas Hardy's 'At Castle Boterel'. The Reader, 51, 67-70.
2012
Ashley Chantler, Michael Davis and Philip Shaw (eds), Literature and Authenticity, 1780-1900 (Ashgate 2011)
Eleanor Courtemanche, The Invisible Hand and British Fiction, 1818-1860: Adam Smith, Political Economy and the Genre of Realism (Palgrave Macmillan 2011) (Book Review)
Billington, J. (2012). Ashley Chantler, Michael Davis and Philip Shaw (eds), Literature and Authenticity, 1780-1900 (Ashgate 2011)Eleanor Courtemanche, The Invisible Hand and British Fiction, 1818-1860: Adam Smith, Political Economy and the Genre of Realism (Palgrave Macmillan 2011). Gaskell Society Journal, 26, 118-20.
Get into Reading as an intervention for common mental health problems: exploring catalysts for change. (Journal article)
Dowrick, C., Billington, J., Robinson, J., Hamer, A., & Williams, C. (2012). Get into Reading as an intervention for common mental health problems: exploring catalysts for change.. Medical humanities, 38(1), 15-20. doi:10.1136/medhum-2011-010083DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2011-010083
A Literature-Based Intervention for Older People Living with Dementia’, (Report)
Billington, J., Davis, P., Kinderman, P., Carroll, J., & Healey, C. (2012). A Literature-Based Intervention for Older People Living with Dementia’,.
An investigation into the therapeutic benefits of reading in relation to depression and well-being, (Report)
Billington, J., Dowrick, C., Robinson, J., & Hamer,, A. (2012). An investigation into the therapeutic benefits of reading in relation to depression and well-being,.
The Connell Guide to George Eliot's Middlemarch (Book)
Billington, J. (2012). The Connell Guide to George Eliot's Middlemarch (1 ed.). London: Connell Guides.
2011
Where does literary study happen? two case studies (Journal article)
Billington, J., & Sperlinger, T. (2011). Where does literary study happen? two case studies. Teaching in Higher Education, 16(5), 505-516. doi:10.1080/13562517.2011.570439DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2011.570439
'Reading for Life': Prison Reading Groups in Practice and Theory (Journal article)
Billington, J. (2011). 'Reading for Life': Prison Reading Groups in Practice and Theory. Critical Survey, 23(3). doi:10.3167/cs.2011.230306DOI: 10.3167/cs.2011.230306
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Shakespeare: This is Living Art (Book)
Billington, J. (2011). Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Shakespeare: This is Living Art. London and New York: Continuum.
Realism's Concealed Realities (Journal article)
Billington, J., & Davis, P. (2011). Realism's Concealed Realities. Synthesis, 3. Retrieved from http://www.enl.uoa.gr/synthesis/authors.htm
Review, Mary Jean Corbett, Family Likenesses: Sex, Marriage and Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf (Cornell University Press, 2008) (Book Review)
Billington, J. (2011). Review, Mary Jean Corbett, Family Likenesses: Sex, Marriage and Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf (Cornell University Press, 2008). Journal of Victorian Culture, 275-279.
2010
'Primary Sources and the MA student' (Chapter)
Billington, J. (2010). 'Primary Sources and the MA student'. In A. Maunder (Ed.), Teaching Nineteenth-Century Fiction (pp. 91-120). London: Palgrave.
Ask Me (Journal article)
Billington, J. (2010). Ask Me. The Reader, 38, 81-84.
Gaskell Timeline (Chapter)
Billington, J. (2010). Gaskell Timeline. In R. Clark, E. Elliott, & J. Todd (Eds.), The Literary Encyclopedia (pp. n/a). n/a: The Literary Dictionary Company Ltd..
2009
How Can This Be Me? (Journal article)
Billington, J., Davis, P., & Morrison, B. (2009). How Can This Be Me?. The Reader, (36), 56-65.
Review, Penny Gay, Judith Johnston, and Catherine Waters (eds) Victorian Turns, NeoVictorian Returns: Essays on Fiction and Culture (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), (Book Review)
Billington, J. (2009). Review, Penny Gay, Judith Johnston, and Catherine Waters (eds) Victorian Turns, NeoVictorian Returns: Essays on Fiction and Culture (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008),. George Eliot Review, 40, 67-69.
2008
Eliot's Middlemarch (Book)
Billington, J. (2008). Eliot's Middlemarch. London and New York: Continuum Press.
Review, George Eliot and the Discourses of Medievalism (Book Review)
Billington, J. (2008). Review, George Eliot and the Discourses of Medievalism. Nineteenth-Century Contexts: an interdisciplinary journal, 30(2), 192-193.
2007
'A Place to Stand and Love In: EBB's Sonnets from the Portuguese' (Journal article)
Billington, J. (2007). 'A Place to Stand and Love In: EBB's Sonnets from the Portuguese'. The Reader, (27), 25-30.
Review, Martin Willis and Catherine Wynne (eds), Victorian Literary Mesmerism (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006), (Book Review)
Billington, J. (2007). Review, Martin Willis and Catherine Wynne (eds), Victorian Literary Mesmerism (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006),. Unknown Journal, 123-125.
Sylvia's Lovers (Chapter)
Billington, J. (2007). Sylvia's Lovers. In R. Clark, E. Elliott, & J. Todd (Eds.), The Literay Encyclopedia (pp. n/a). n/a: The Literary Dictionary Company Ltd.
Wives and Daughters (Chapter)
Billington, J. (2007). Wives and Daughters. In R. Clark, E. Elliott, & J. Todd (Eds.), The Literary Encyclopedia (pp. n/a). n/a: The Literary Dictionary Company.
2006
Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters, Vol 10, Collected Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, ed. by Joanne Shattock (Book)
Billington, J. (Ed.) (2006). Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters, Vol 10, Collected Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, ed. by Joanne Shattock (1 ed.). London: Pickering & Chatto.
'Tolstoy: On Life's Verge' (Journal article)
Billington, J. (2006). 'Tolstoy: On Life's Verge'. The Reader, (22), 33-39.
2005
'Why Read Mrs Gaskell Today' (Journal article)
Billington, J. (2005). 'Why Read Mrs Gaskell Today'. The Reader, (17), 21-26.
2004
Cousin Phillis (Chapter)
Billington, J. (2004). Cousin Phillis. In R. Clark, E. Elliott, J. Todd, & R. Clark (Eds.), The Literary Encyclopedia (pp. n/a). n/a: The Literary Dictionary Company Ltd.. Retrieved from http://www.literaryencyclopedia.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=5812
2003
The Life of Charlotte Bronte (Chapter)
Billington, J. (2003). The Life of Charlotte Bronte. In R. Clark, E. Elliott, J. Todd, & R. Clark (Eds.), The Literary Encyclopedia (pp. n/a). n/a: The Literary Dictionary Company Ltd.. Retrieved from http://www.literaryencyclopedia.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=353
2002
Faithful Realism: Elizabeth Gaskell and Leo Tolstoy: A Comparative Study (Book)
Billington, J. (2002). Faithful Realism: Elizabeth Gaskell and Leo Tolstoy: A Comparative Study. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press.
Ruth (Chapter)
Billington, J. (2002). Ruth. In R. Clark, E. Elliott, J. Todd, & R. Clark (Eds.), The LIterary Encyclopedia (pp. n/a). n/a: The Literary Dictionary Company Ltd. Retrieved from http://www.literaryencyclopedia.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=2276
2001
Cranford (Chapter)
Billington, J. (2001). Cranford. In R. Clark, E. Elliott, J. Todd, & R. Clark (Eds.), The Literary Encyclopedia (pp. n/a). n/a: The Literary Dictionary Company Ltd.. Retrieved from http://literaryencyclopedia.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=5808
Elizabeth Gaskell (Chapter)
Billington, J. (2001). Elizabeth Gaskell. In R. Clark, E. Elliott, J. Todd, & R. Clark (Eds.), The Literary Encyclopedia (pp. n/a). n/a: The Literary Dictionary Company Ltd.. Retrieved from http://www.literaryencyclopedia.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1699
Elizabeth Gaskell's 'The Life of Charlotte Bronte' (Chapter)
Billington, J. (2001). Elizabeth Gaskell's 'The Life of Charlotte Bronte'. In M. Jolly (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Life Writing (Vol. 1, pp. 355-356). London & Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn.
Mary Barton (Chapter)
Billington, J. (2001). Mary Barton. In R. Clark, E. Elliott, J. Todd, & R. Clark (Eds.), The Literary Encyclopedia (pp. n/a). n/a: The Literary Dictionary Company Ltd.. Retrieved from http://www.literaryencyclopedia.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=3725
North and South (Chapter)
Billington, J. (2001). North and South. In R. Clark, E. Elliott, J. Todd, & R. Clark (Eds.), The Literary Encyclopedia (pp. n/a). n/a: The Literary Dictionary Company Ltd.. Retrieved from http://www.literaryencyclopedia.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=3238