The Oxford Literary History of Wales: Volume 3. Welsh Writing in English, 1536-1914: The First Four Hundred Years

About Jane AaronSarah Prescott

Emeritus Professor at the University of South Wales and Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales Jane Aaron's publications include A Double Singleness: Gender and the Writings of Charles and Mary Lamb (Clarendon Press 1991) Pur fel y Dur: Y Gymraes yn Llên Menywod y Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Bymtheg (UWP 1998) which won the Ellis Griffith prize in 1999 and Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in Wales (UWP 2007) winner of the 2009 Roland Mathias Award. Her most recent volume is Welsh Gothic (UWP 2013). She co-edited the essay collections Our Sisters' Land: The Changing Identities of Women in Wales (UWP 1994) Postcolonial Wales (UWP 2005) and Gendering Border Studies (UWP 2010) and is also editor of Welsh Women's Classics published by Honno Press for which she has edited five volumes. Sarah Prescott is Principal and Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities University College Dublin and Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. She specializes in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British and Irish women's writing and pre-1800 Welsh writing in English and has published many articles and chapters in her subject field. She is the author of Women Authorship and Literary Culture 1690-1740 (Palgrave Macmillan 2003) Women and Poetry 1660-1750 (with S. Prescott and D. Shuttleton Palgrave Macmillan 2003) Eighteenth-Century Writing from Wales: Bards and Britons (UWP 2008) and Writing Wales from the Renaissance to Romanticism (with S. Mottram and S. Prescott Ashgate 2012). Professor Prescott is the Principal Investigator for the Leverhulme-funded project 'Women's Poetry from Ireland Scotland and Wales: 1400-1800'.