CONFERENCE: Frances Sheridan celebrated at a conference on women’s writing in Hungary
Dr Clíona Ó Gallchoir will deliver a plenary lecture at the University of Pécs, Hungary, as part of an event to celebrate the 300th anniversary in 2024 of the birth of the Frances Sheridan, one of the outstanding Irish women writers of the eighteenth-century. The conference is organized by the Department of English Literatures and Cultures, University of Pécs, the Regional Committee of The Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Pécs and the Irish Studies Research Centre, University of Pécs. Dr Ó Gallchoir’s participation in the conference has been generously sponsored by the Irish Embassy in Hungary. Her lecture is entitled “A matrilineal literary inheritance? Frances Sheridan and Elizabeth Sheridan Le Fanu”.
The conference ‘English and Irish Women Writers of the Long Eighteenth Century’
commemorates the 400th anniversary of the birth of Margaret Cavendish in 2023 and the 300th anniversary of the birth of Frances Sheridan in 2024.