Jane Aaron is Professor of English at the University of Glamorgan. She is the author of Pur fel y Dur: Y Gymraes yn Llen Menywod y Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Bymtheg (Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 1998) and edited Our Sisters' Land (reprinted 2004) and Postcolonial Wales (2005).

'This book is the fruit of much research over the years by an academic extremely well qualified in this field - A study of nineteenth-century Welsh women writers is long overdue and Jane Aaron is the ideal scholar to present it.' Professor Caroline Franklin, Department of English, Swansea University