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Jane Rhiannon Aaron

Jane Rhiannon Aaron, Welsh adult education educator. Member of board Honno Welsh Women's Press, Aberystwyth, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1996; Fellow: Welsh Academy (honorary).

Background

  • Aaron, Jane Rhiannon was born on September 26, 1951 in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

  • Education

    • Bachelor in English, University of Wales, Swansea, 1970—1973. Doctor of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Somerville, 1973—1980.

    Career

    • Professor, English University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, Wales, since 1999. Senior lecturer, English University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1993—1998. Editor, welsh women's classics Honno Press, Aberystwyth, since 1996.

    Works

    • Author: (literary criticism) Pur fel y Dur Welsh-language book on Nineteenth-Century Welsh women's writing (Board of Celtic Studies Ellis Griffith Prize and Mrs L. W. Davies Bequest, 1999), A Double Singleness: Gender and the Writings of Charles and Mary Lamb. Editor: (short story anthology) A View across the Valley: Short Stories by Women from Wales 1850-1950, (essay collection) Our Sisters' Land: The Changing Identities of Women in Wales, (feminist essay collection) Out of the Margins: Women's Studies in the Nineties.

    Membership

    Member of board Honno Welsh Women's Press, Aberystwyth, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1996. Fellow: Welsh Academy (honorary).

    Personality

    Interests

    Hill-walking, movies.

    Connections

    • Daughter of Richard Ithamar Aaron and Annie Rhiannon Morgan. Life partner John Koch.
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    Nationality
    • 1993 - 1998
      senior, lecturer
      Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, United Kingdom
    • 1999
      Professor
      Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff, United Kingdom