Susan Petrilli's archival research on Victoria Welby and its implications for future scholarly inquiry

In carrying out her archival research of Victoria Welby's collected scholarly documents and personal correspondence, Susan Petrilli has engaged in a demanding type of academic inquiry that requires critical and analytical skills of the highest order. The present essay focuses on this aspect of Petrilli's research, which culminated in her opus magnum Signifying and Understanding. It also addresses the need to continue to extract additional materials from these important documents, many of which are located at York University (Ontario, Canada). This will enable scholars to have easier access to them in order to facilitate future research on significs and Victoria Welby's role in its ideological development.