Publications

Books

Cover illustration for the volume "A Cultural History of Love in the Age of Enlightenment", featuring a Meissen scene of a man bending to kiss a woman's hand. She looks away from him, towards her black servant, drinking tea with her pug in her lap
Book cover titled "The Game of Love in Georgian England" with a circular design taken from a contemporary board game, featuring various numbered and labeled sections, and a pink "Emotions in History" series banner at the top
Book cover titled "Feeling Things: Objects and Emotions through History," edited by Stephanie Downes, Sally Holloway, and Sarah Randles, featuring a pair of C17th gloves with lace cuffs, and an orange "Emotions in History" series banner at the top

A Cultural History of Love in the Age of Enlightenment, ed. Katie Barclay and Sally Holloway (Bloomsbury, 2024)

The Game of Love in Georgian England: Courtship, Emotions and Material Culture (Oxford, 2019)

Reviewed as ‘a landmark study’ (Social History), ‘an exemplar of how to “do” emotions history with objects’ (Women’s History Review) and ‘a reference and model for scholars for years to come’ (English Historical Review)

Feeling Things: Objects and Emotions through History, ed. Stephanie Downes, Sally Holloway, and Sarah Randles (Oxford, 2018) 

Reviewed as ‘a must-read for all emotions students and scholars’ (Emotions: History, Culture, Society) with ‘poignant, rigorously researched, and theoretically provocative essays’ (Eighteenth-Century Fiction)

Articles

‘The Foods of Love? Food Gifts, Courtship, and Emotions in Long Eighteenth-Century England’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 34.2 (2024): 111-134 [Open Access]

‘Love, Custom & Consumption: Valentine’s Day in England c. 1660–1830’, Cultural and Social History 17.3 (2020): 295-314.

with Lucy Worsley, ‘“Every body took notice of the Scene of the Drawing Room”: Performing Emotions at the Early Georgian Court’, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 40.3 (2017): 443-64.

‘“You know I am all on fire”: Writing the Adulterous Affair in England c. 1740-1830’, Historical Research 89.244 (2016): 317-39 [Open Access]. Selected as one of the journal’s ‘Classic Articles’ representing their most downloaded or cited works.

Chapters

[under contract] ‘Love’ in Katie Barclay and Sharon Crozier-De Rosa (eds) Oxford Handbook of the History of Emotions (forthcoming: Oxford University Press, 2026).

‘Love in Art & Material Culture’ in Katie Barclay and Sally Holloway (eds) A Cultural History of Love in the Age of Enlightenment (Bloomsbury, 2024), pp. 171-90.

‘“Kiss mee”: Coins, Love & Matrimony’ in Sarah Lloyd and Timothy Millett (eds) Tokens of Love, Loss and Disrespect 1700–1850 (Paul Holberton Publishing, 2022), pp. 87-92.

‘Materializing Maternal Emotions: Birth, Celebration, & Renunciation in England, c. 1688–1830’ in Stephanie Downes, Sally Holloway and Sarah Randles (eds) Feeling Things: Objects and Emotions through History (Oxford University Press series ‘Emotions in History’, 2018), pp. 154-74.

with Stephanie Downes and Sarah Randles, ‘A Feeling for Things, Past & Present’ in idem (eds) Feeling Things: Objects and Emotions through History (Oxford University Press series ‘Emotions in History’, 2018), pp. 8-23.

‘Textiles’ in Susan Broomhall (ed.) Early Modern Emotions: An Introduction (Routledge, 2017), pp. 161-5.

Special Issues

with Katie Barclay (eds) Cultural and Social History Special Issue ‘Interrogating Romantic Love’ 17.3 (2020), co-author of ‘Interrogating Romantic Love’, 271-9 [Open Access].

with Alice Dolan (eds) Textile Special Issue ‘Emotional Textiles’ 14.2 (2016), co-author of ‘Emotional Textiles: An Introduction’, 152-9 [Open Access].

Encyclopedia Entries

‘Love’, Encyclopedia of Smell History and Heritage, Odeuropa (2023)