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About the author
Madeleine Mikinski (University of York)
Madeleine Mikinski is a third-year PhD student at the University of York. Her doctoral project ‘Credit and Credibility’ explores convergences of gossip and economics in the works of Jane Austen. Mikinski is a doctoral fellow of York’s Humanities Research Centre and was Chawton House Library’s 2024 Deirdre Le Faye Fellow. She also worked as a curatorial intern on Harewood House’s major 2025 exhibition, Austen & Turner: A Country House Encounter. Prior to starting her PhD, Mikinski was a lecturer in journalism at the University of Kansas.
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