I am interested in prose fiction and theatre of the long eighteenth century (from 1660 through to the 1830s), especially the work of women writers and the emergence of proto-feminist argument. My publications have often explored the translation and imitation of French works in English such as Galland’s 1001 Nights and Aphra Behn’s treatments of French sources in her plays, fiction and poetry. I seek to investigate the competing and different ways in which genres of the early modern period construct a fiction of mind (in terms of character, reader/audience, and author).