Amy Jeffrey holds a PhD in Irish literature from Queen’s University Belfast, where she has taught for several years. She has published widely in the field of Irish studies, women’s and LGBTQ+ writing and culture. Her work has appeared in Intertexts: A Journal of Comparative and Theoretical Reflection and The Journal of International Women’s Studies. In 2019 her work was shortlisted by the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association postgraduate essay competition. Amy is also a writer of horror fiction and contributes regularly to Bindweed Literary Magazine.

• Introduction: ‘It was not in the light we lived, but in the spaces between — in the darkness’ Chapter One: Inversion and queer liminality in the Nineteenth-centuryChapter Two: Liminal spaces and minority communities in the Twentieth-century Chapter Three: Embracing queer liminal space in the late Twentieth-century Chapter Four: (Liminal?) lesbians in the mainstream: ‘Popular’ lesbian fiction Conclusion: The lesbian death (bed): Contemporary ‘queer’ Irish and Northern Irish writing

Amy Jeffrey holds a PhD in Irish literature from Queen’s University Belfast, where she has taught for several years. She has published widely in the field of Irish studies, women’s and LGBTQ+ writing and culture. Her work has appeared in Intertexts: A Journal of Comparative and Theoretical Reflection and The Journal of International Women’s Studies. In 2019 her work was shortlisted by the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association postgraduate essay competition. Amy is also a writer of horror fiction and contributes regularly to Bindweed Literary Magazine.

• Introduction: ‘It was not in the light we lived, but in the spaces between — in the darkness’ Chapter One: Inversion and queer liminality in the Nineteenth-centuryChapter Two: Liminal spaces and minority communities in the Twentieth-century Chapter Three: Embracing queer liminal space in the late Twentieth-century Chapter Four: (Liminal?) lesbians in the mainstream: ‘Popular’ lesbian fiction Conclusion: The lesbian death (bed): Contemporary ‘queer’ Irish and Northern Irish writing

Amy Jeffrey holds a PhD in Irish literature from Queen’s University Belfast, where she has taught for several years. She has published widely in the field of Irish studies, women’s and LGBTQ+ writing and culture. Her work has appeared in Intertexts: A Journal of Comparative and Theoretical Reflection and The Journal of International Women’s Studies. In 2019 her work was shortlisted by the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association postgraduate essay competition. Amy is also a writer of horror fiction and contributes regularly to Bindweed Literary Magazine.

• Introduction: ‘It was not in the light we lived, but in the spaces between — in the darkness’ Chapter One: Inversion and queer liminality in the Nineteenth-centuryChapter Two: Liminal spaces and minority communities in the Twentieth-century Chapter Three: Embracing queer liminal space in the late Twentieth-century Chapter Four: (Liminal?) lesbians in the mainstream: ‘Popular’ lesbian fiction Conclusion: The lesbian death (bed): Contemporary ‘queer’ Irish and Northern Irish writing