Sarah Prescott

Short Biography

Sarah Prescott’s current research concerns Anglophone Welsh writing from 1536 to 1780. At present she is working on two projects in this area: a book on 17th- and 18th-century women writers for the series ‘Gender Studies in Wales’ (University of Wales Press) and volume three, Welsh Writing in English, 1536–1914 of The Oxford Literary History of Wales, which she is co-writing with Jane Aaron. In 2008, she published Eighteenth-Century Writing from Wales: Bards and Britons for the University of Wales Press series ‘Writing Wales in English’. Her previous monograph Women, Authorship and Literary Culture, 1690–1740 (Palgrave 2003), explored a range of women novelists and poets from the late seventeenth to the early 18th century. She has also co-edited a book on Women and Poetry, 1660–1750 (Palgrave 2003). Sarah took her first degree in English and Related Literature at the University of York and then went on to study for a PhD on early 18th-century women novelists and feminist literary history with Jane Spencer at the University of Exeter. She has taught in the Department of English at Aberystwyth University since 1995 and in July 2008 she co-organised a conference on ‘Writing Wales, 1500–1800’ at the National Library of Wales in collaboration with the Aberystwyth-Bangor Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS).