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English Department

afjkm1@uaa.alaska.edu

University of Oklahoma, B.A. (1965);
M.A. (1967) Cornell University,
Ph.D. (1970)

Judith Moore is Professor of English at the University of Alaska Anchorage and has taught at the State University College of New York at Oswego and at Fisk University. She is the author of numerous articles and short stories and, most recently, a study of conflicts in the development of professional nursing in Victorian England titled A Zeal for Responsibility. Both that study and The Appearance of Truth combine an interest in reading literary and nonliterary texts with a focus on recovering the history of marginalized British women in early modern England.

A Zeal for Responsibility

Book cover of A Zeal for Responsibility     "...The idealized image of Florence Nightingale tending the wounded of the Crimean War is perhaps the most enduring symbol in the history of nursing. Yet this vision of the tender “Lady with the Lamp” does not represent the more vital tradition of confrontation and reform that marked not only Nightingale’s career but also those of the many other assertive, self-sacrificing, and principled women of her day who fought for improved nursing education and practice. Together. these women brought about a revolution in British nursing, forging the reforms that made possible professional nursing as it exists today..."(Back cover)   

The Appearance of Truth

Book cover of The Appearance of Truth    

On 1 January 1753 Elizabeth Canning, an eighteen-year-old maidservant, disappeared somewhere between her uncle’s and her mother’s home. Nearly a month later she reappeared at her mother’s door; she was half-naked, emaciated, unable even to swallow. Elizabeth’s neighbors rallied around her with medical and legal support, and when they pieced together her story of assault, kidnapping, and detention, they pursued her assailants. Susannah Wells, an Enfield woman, was soon identified as the owner of the house where Canning said she had been held; Canning identified Mary Squires, a gypsy woman resident in Wells’s house, as the person who had stripped her of her stays and thrust her into the derelict attic from which she had eventually escaped. (Back cover)