INTRODUCING ELEANOR
Eleanor Houghton (B.A. Hons (Oxon), M.A., PhD.) is an historical consultant, writer and illustrator. She is a specialist in eighteenth and nineteenth century costume, literature and social history and, drawing on her broad knowledge, she has advised artists, authors, curators, costume designers, television producers and museum professionals on a wide variety of projects. Eleanor is passionate about finding answers to the difficult questions that the past so often presents and approaches every research project with tenacity, creativity and diligence.
Eleanor is also currently writing an highly innovative biography of Charlotte Brontë which explores the famous author’s life through her surviving clothing. Although nearly 170 years have passed since Charlotte Brontë died, witnesses to her life still survive. Material Witness: Charlotte Brontë’s Life Through Clothes finally gives voice to the dresses, corsets, bonnets, shawls and many other garments that were present as she penned the first lines of Jane Eyre, as she walked the cobbled streets of Haworth with her sisters, as she dined with William Makepeace Thackeray at his home in London or as she joined Arthur Bell Nicholls at the altar in the summer of 1854. Powerful as their stories are, their testimonies have remained unheard – until today.
Eleanor is represented by Liza DeBlock and Kiya Evans of Mushens Entertainment.