Emma Arthur

Music in the nineteenth century, women's music-making, domestic music, music education, music and identity, Irish cultural history

Emma’s DPhil research, supervised by Professor Laura Tunbridge, is focused on the amateur music-making practices of women in nineteenth-century Ireland. Through the exploration of Irish women from various social, political and religious backgrounds, it examines how societal influences impacted how women engaged with music and its significance as a tool for social mobility, marriage and employment. In particular, it seeks to understand how women's engagement with music in non-public and non-professional contexts (such as the home and the school) contributed to the formation of various facets of their identities as well as facilitated and reflected their position in wider Irish society.

AHRC Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership

Clarendon Fund

Merton College Scholarship