Anna M. Fitzer, BA (Hons), PhD (Wales), FHEA is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature at the University of Hull. She completed her doctorate on eighteenth-century sentimental fiction and the female rake at the University of Wales, and is Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She has published widely on the work of the Sheridan family, and is editor of the four-volume Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I (2012), and of Strathallan (2008), the first novel written by Frances Sheridan’s granddaughter, Alicia LeFanu. Her co-edited collection, Editing Women’s Writing 1670-1840, was published by Routledge in 2018.