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Johnson, Rachel (2017) George Alfred Henty Writing the Past. IBBYLink (47). pp. 11-15. ISSN 2053-6984

Johnson, Rachel (2011) ILS and RTP: Support to Researchers Provided by Information and Learning Services as Part of the Research Training Programme at the University of Worcester, Past, Present and Future. Journal of Information Literacy, 5 (1). pp. 33-44. ISSN 1750-5968

Johnson, Rachel (2009) 'The History of Heroes is the History of Youth': The Construct of the Youthful Hero in the work of G.A. Henty and George MacDonald. The Journal of Children's Literature Studies, Volume (Issue). ISSN 1743-0526

Johnson, Rachel (2007) Re-creating England: the Settler and His Homecoming in the Work of G.A. Henty 1832-1902. Worcester Papers in English and Cultural Studies. pp. 1-16.

Johnson, Rachel (2006) The Past and Future Hero: the Henty Boy in the Twenty-First Century? The Henty Society Bulletin.

Johnson, Rachel (2004) Horizons of Expectation: Fairy Tale Motifs and Narrative Patterns in the Work of George MacDonald (1824-1905) and G.A. Henty (1832-1902). The Henty Society Bulletin (103). pp. 19-27.

Book Section

Johnson, Rachel (2007) "A Sort of Fairy Tale": Narrative and Genre in George MacDonald's Little Daylight. In: "A Noble Unrest" Contemporary Essays on the Work of George MacDonald. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, pp. 33-43. ISBN 1847181546

Conference or Workshop Item

Johnson, Rachel (2018) 'Many Books are Necessary' or: Books 'for children of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.' Charlotte Mason's concept of Living Books, how we might find them. In: Charlotte Mason Retreat, Lake District, 30 April - 4th May 2018, Ambleside, England. (Unpublished)

Johnson, Rachel (2014) Wild Cornwall : Cornwall as a Landscape for Adventure in the Writings of Percy F. Westerman. In: Westerman Seminar, 14-15th February 2014, Wareham, Dorset.

Penney, C. and Johnson, Rachel (2013) Hurd but not Seen: the Archive of Bishop Richard Hurd Unwrapped in Partnership with the University of Worcester and the University of Birmingham. In: Enhancing Impact, Inspiring Excellence: Collaborative Approaches Between Archives and Universities, 4th September 2013, University of Birmingham.

Johnson, Rachel (2012) Remember We're British : Did Percy Westerman Change the Henty Hero? In: 2nd Percy Westerman Seminar, 11th February 2012, Portsmouth. (Unpublished)

Johnson, Rachel (2012) The Wise Woman as an Agent of Identity in George MacDonald‘s Story The Wise Woman. In: The Eigth Frances White Ewbank Colloquium on C.S. Lewis & Friends and the C.S. Lewis & the Inklings Society Annual Conference, May 31st - June 2nd 2012, Taylor University, Upland, Indiana.

Johnson, Rachel (2010) Chemical Warfare: An Investigation into the Emotional Involvement of Young People in Local Political Issues Through an Examination of Nancekuke by John Branfield. In: The Emerging Adult : Adolescent Literature and Culture, 3-5th September 2010, Homerton, Cambridge. (Unpublished)

Johnson, Rachel (2009) Is Beric a Briton?: the Representation of Cultural Identity in G.A. Henty’s Beric the Briton (1893) and Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Outcast (1955). In: Past Continuous: Historical Fiction for Children, Newcastle University., October 2009, Newcastle University. (Unpublished)

Johnson, Rachel (2009) Is Henty’s History Lost in Graphic Translation? Or Won by the Sword in 45 pages. In: IBBY Conference Going Graphic : Comics and Graphic Novels for Young People, November 14th 2009, Roehampton.

Johnson, Rachel (2008) Goblinization: a Reading of the Colonial Subject and Degeneration in The Princess and the Goblin (1872) and The Princess and Curdie (1883) by George MacDonald (1824-1905). In: 2008 Frances White Ewbank Colloquium on C.S. Lewis & Friends, Thursday May 29th to Sunday June 1st, Taylor University, Upland, Indiana. (Unpublished)

Johnson, Rachel (2008) Personal and Political Identity and Disguise in The Tiger of Mysore by G.A. Henty (1832-1902). In: Children’s Literature Association India Conference, January 2008, Mangalore, India. (Unpublished)

Johnson, Rachel and Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2007) Research Collection, Development and Collaboration. In: Collectors and Collecting, June 2007, Chawton House, Hampshire.. (Unpublished)

Johnson, Rachel (2006) Ranald Bannerman: the Hero as ‘Real’ Boy. In: Norchilnet August 2006, August 2006, University of Worcester. (Unpublished)

Johnson, Rachel (2006) Recombination: Narrative and Genre in George MacDonald’s A Rough Shaking. In: ChLA Conference, June 8 - 10 2006, Manhattan Beach, CA.. (Unpublished)

Book

Mitra, Barbara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4512-466X and Johnson, Rachel (2015) Gender Construction in Kays Catalogues: 1920 to the New Millennium. Cambridge Academic, Cambridge. ISBN 1903499828

Johnson, Rachel (2014) A Complete Identity: the Youthful Hero in the Work of G.A. Henty and George MacDonald. Wipf and Stock Publishers, Eugene, Oregon. ISBN 978-1-62564-238-7

Thesis

Johnson, Rachel (2008) A Complete Identity: the Image of the Hero in the Work of G. A. Henty (1832–1902) and George MacDonald (1824–1905). PhD thesis, Coventry University in association with the University of Worcester.