Clíona Ó Gallchoir is a lecturer in the department of English, University College Cork. She received her BA and MA degrees from University College Dublin and her PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge. Her publications include A History of Modern Irish Women's Writing (CUP, 2018) (co-edited with Heather Ingman), and Maria Edgeworth: Women, Enlightenment and Nation (UCD Press, 2005). Her essay on narratives of childhood in eighteenth-century Ireland is forthcoming in Ireland in Transition, edited by Moyra Haslett (CUP, 2019).