Mary O'Connell

Mary O’Connell is a lecturer in the Department of English, University College Cork, teaching in the areas of 19th century literature and crime fiction. She completed an IRC funded doctoral thesis in 2009 and subsequently held the position of Leverhulme Fellow at the School of English, University of St. Andrews. Following that, she was NUI Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of English, UCC.Her first monograph, Byron and John Murray: A Poet and His Publisher (Liverpool University Press, 2015) was the first major study of Byron’s literary association and personal friendship with his publisher and represented a significant contribution to the field of Byron studies. She co-edited (with Graham Allen and Carrie Griffin) Readings on Audience and Textual Materiality (Pickering & Chatto, 2014) and with Griffin has worked extensively on the archive of the Victorian printer Charles Clark. The Clark project won several awards, including the Bibliographical Society’s Antiquarian Booksellers Award. She has published in the areas of Romantic literature, book history, and particularly Regency Print Culture. Her areas of research interest include 19th century book history, Romantic literature, and detective fiction.

Romantic Literature, Victorian Literature, Publishing History, Book History, Crime Fiction.

Romantic Literature, Victorian Literature, Detective Fiction