A History of the Girl Formation, Education and Identity

Mary O’Dowd is Professor of Gender History at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. Her publications include A History of Women in Ireland, 1500-1800 (2005) and Reading the Irish Woman Case Studies in Cultural Encounters and Exchange (co-authored with Gerardine Meaney and Bernadette Whelan, 2014) .  She has recently completed a co-authored study of the history of marriage in Ireland, 1660-1925.

June Purvis is Emeritus Professor of Women's and Gender History at Portsmouth University, UK. She is Founding and Managing Editor of the journal Women’s History Review and author of Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography (2002) and Christabel Pankhurst: A Biography (2018), as well as co-editor of thirteen edited book collections. She is Chair of the Women’s History Network and Treasurer and Secretary of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History.