Rosemary is the Director of the Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies and Associate Editor of the Journal of Victorian Culture. Her research interests focus on Victorian historical cultures and how the Victorians appropriated the past to explore and address contemporary political, social, religious and cultural issues. She is currently writing a monograph on Victorian domesticity and gender roles and the uses of the past.

Website: http://www.leedstrinity.ac.uk/departments/history/staff/pages/mitchell.aspx