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Author and Academic
Publications
Books
Sisters In Arms:
Female Warriors from Antiquity to the New Millennium
Esther:
The Remarkable True Story of Esther Wheelwright: Puritan Child, Native Daughter, Mother Superior
Short listed for the British Army Military Book of the Year Award 2020
Book of the Week, Times Higher Education
5 March 2020
‘A long overdue assertion on the role of women on the battlefield. This book is going straight on my daughter’s book shelf.’ Dan Snow, presenter of HistoryHits
‘Wheelwright not only uncovers neglected female warriors, but she brings their temperaments, talents, fancies and foibles to life.’ Professor Emerita Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck, University of London
‘Sisters in Arms show the many faces of women in combat – from the myths of the ancient world to the headline-grabbing conflicts of today – with a scrupulous attention their different contexts, but a common compassion for their struggles and achievements.’ Boyd Tonkin, author and literary critic
‘As an avid consumer of military history in all its forms, I found Sisters in Arms particularly important and revelatory. . . in the age of misinformation, alternate facts, and quasi-history that content like this book gets as much attention as possible.’ Cullen Burke, presenter of the military history podcast, Cauldron
‘In this highly readable and meticulously researched history, Julie Wheelwright explores the long and adventurous life of her distant relative, Esther Wheelwright: "Puritan Child, Native Daughter, Mother Superior." In doing so, Wheelwright provides a fascinating portrait of New England and New France in the 18th century, and of the complex negotiations among the French, the English and the Abenaki as they battled over land, religion and hunting rights.’ Margot Livesey, author, The Road from Belhaven
‘Written over years of painful fact-gathering and transatlantic visits from her native England to several North American locations, Esther is the engaging result of Julie Wheelwrights efforts to give a full account of the multiple lives of her eighteenth-century ancestor, first as a Puritan seven-year-old child abducted during a French and First Nations raid on her village in Maine, later as adopted daughter to a Catholic Abenaki family, and eventually as a nun in Quebec City.’
Pilar Cuder-Dominguez, ‘Contact Zones’, Canadian Literature
You can listen to an extract from Esther
here, from drumlitmag.com
Osprey, Oxford. 2020.
ISBN978-1-4728-3800-1
HarperCollins, Toronto, 2011.
ISBN 978-0-00-200723-8
The Fatal Lover:
Mata Hari And The Myth of Women in Espionage
Amazons And Military Maids:
Women Who Dressed As Men In Pursuit Of Life, Liberty And Happiness
‘Julie Wheelwright has done an enormous amount of homework and scholarly collation. As a historical document, this book makes for a fascinating read.’ Amanda Mitchison, The New Statesman, 24 July 1992.
‘‘. . . clear and accessible, and uses the foray of women into a man’s world to discuss not only cross-dressing but also women’s relationship to war.’ Michelene Wandor The Sunday Times
‘Convincingly shows how expectations of gender change . . . this widely researched and generous book is an eye-opener.’ Harriet Gilbert, The Guardian
'An ambitious and thought-provoking book . . . well-worth reading, it steps where feminists have often feared to tread’. Margaret Hunt, Women’s Review of Books
Juliet Gardiner Books, Collins and Brown, London, 1992.
ISBN 1-85585-105-9
Pandora Press, London, 1989.
ISBN 0-04-440494-8
Publications
Journalism
Book chapter
Writing about gender-based sexual violence
Journalism
Mata Hari's Beautiful Duty
Journalism
Revamping the vamp - The Woman behind the legend of Mata-Hari
Aeon Magazine, 29 August 2017
https://aeon.co/essays/revamping-the-vamp-the-woman-behind-the-legend-of-mata-hari
BOOK CHAPTER
Who Speaks? Problematizing the Storyteller in Narratives of Victim-Survivors of Military Sexual Trauma
Insights on Literary Journalism: Journalism Insights series, in press
Richard Keeble and Kevin M. Lerner eds., Abingdon, Oxford, Routledge
BOOK CHAPTER
‘The Orgy Next Door’: An Exploration of Ethics and Methods
Gay Talese’s The Voyeur’s Motel. Richard Keeble and Sue Joseph eds. Sextext. 2019
Goring on Thames, Bite-Sized Books. ISBN 9781695107212
Winner, 2018, John Hartsock prize, Best Journal Article, for ’The Orgy Next Door’: An Exploration of Ethical Relationships in Gay Talese’s ’Thy Neighbours Wife’, Literary Journalism Studies.
BOOK CHAPTER
‘The Language of Espionage: Mata Hari and the Creation of the Spy-Courtesan’
Declercq C. & Walker, J., eds., Languages and the First World War. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan, London. pp 164-177. ISBN 978-1-137-55035-4
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