Eleanor Bourg Nicholson

Eleanor Bourg Nicholson edited the Ignatius Critical Edition of Dracula and yearns to correct Count Dracula’s strategic errors. In addition to scholarly pursuits, she occasionally strays into fiction, including her epistolary novella, The Letters of Magdalen Montague (Kaufmann Publishing, 2011), and her Victorian vampire novel, A Bloody Habit (Ignatius Press, publication pending).

Mrs. Nicholson is the assistant executive editor for Dappled Things and assistant editor for the Saint Austin Review (StAR). She is editor of several Ignatius Critical Editions volumes, and has collaborated with other editors to provide footnotes for numerous others.Her work has appeared in the National Catholic Register and Touchstone, as well as with First Things and The Catholic Thing.

By day, Mrs. Nicholson is the Director of Religious Education at a Dominican-run parish, and, with her husband, Homeschool Connections' philosophy instructor Dr. Sam Nicholson, homeschools their three children.

Fun piece of trivia: Mrs. Nicholson's younger brother is married to middle school writing instructor, Mrs. Bonnie Donlon. 



Mrs. Nicholson teaches the following courses:
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Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897) (Victorian Classics) 
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847) (Victorian Classics) 
The Nineteenth-Century Novel (Victorian Classics)
The Victorian Detective (Victorian Classics)
Literature Independent Study