Sophie Fuller’s research into late Victorian and Edwardian musicmaking in Britain centres round questions of identity, in particular exploring the roles and achievements of women and others working outside the musical mainstream.

She has published writings on topics ranging from women composers and professionalism to Clara Butt, Edward Elgar and the salon, and Vaughan Williams and song.

Sophie is the author of The Pandora Guide to Women Composers (HarperCollins, 1994). She has co-edited two collections of essays: Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity with Lloyd Whitesell (University of Illinois Press, 2002) and The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction with Nicky Losseff (Ashgate, 2004). She has also co-edited Music, Life and Changing Times: Selected Correspondence between British Composers Elizabeth Maconchy and Grace Williams. 1927-77 with Jenny Doctor (Routledge, 2020) and contributed chapters to The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900 (ed. Hamer, 2021), The Routledge Handbook of Women’s Work in Music (ed. Mathias, 2022) and The Cambridge Companion to Women Composers (ed. Head and Wollenberg, 2023).