Sophia Hillan was Assistant Director of the Queen’s University of Belfast’s Institute of Irish Studies. She is the author of a number of critical studies on Michael McLaverty and Sam Hanna Bell and of one novel, The Friday Tree. She is best known for her biography of Jane’s Austen’s nieces, Marianne, Louisa and Cassandra Knight: May, Lou and Cass: Jane Austen’s Nieces in Ireland. She lives and works in Belfast.

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