Miss Sidney and Miss Olivia: the lives and writings of the Owenson sisters

The Royal Irish Academy

The final evening lecture of this second series held on 10 November 2022 and delivered by Claire Connolly MRIA, Professor of Modern English at University College Cork, on the lives and writings of Miss Sydney and Miss Olivia Owenson. Claire Connolly is Professor of Modern English at University College Cork. A cultural history of the Irish novel, 1790–1829 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) won the Donald J. Murphy Prize. With Marjorie Howes (Boston College), Professor Connolly is General Editor of Irish literature in transition, 1700– 2020 (Cambridge University Press, 2020); and editor of Volume 2 of the series, Irish literature in transition, 1780–1830. 1. The seventeenth-century Boyle sisters and their letters 2. Kate O'Brien and her sisters: archives, fictions and families? 3. Reassessing Anna and Fanny Parnell 4. The lives and writings of the Owenson sisters