Irish Lesbian Writing Across Time

Anna Charczun completed her PhD at Brunel University London in 2019, where she received the Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for Doctoral Research in the same year. Her research interests include Irish women’s writing, with an emphasis on lesbian writing. She has published on Irish lesbian writing at the end of the twentieth century and from diaspora.

• Contents: Covert Representations of Lesbian Desire in Fin- de- siècle Fictions by Irish New Woman Writers and the Historical Antecedents in Earlier Irish Literature: 1801– 1910 – Lesbian Continuum and Lesbian Desire as Implicitly Encoded in the Works of Elizabeth Bowen, Kate O’Brien and Molly Keane: 1927– 1934 – Lesbian Existence in the Post- War Writings of Elizabeth Bowen, Kate O’Brien and Edna O’Brien: 1949– 1988 – Towards More Overt Representations of Lesbian Desire: 1989– 2007 – Lesbian Writing from Irish Diaspora: 1982– 2008 – Twenty- First- Century Representations of Lesbian Desire in Northern Irish Fiction and Drama: 1922– 2018 – Some Conclusions: Into the Future of (Irish) Lesbian Writing.