Anna Abney in interview with Paul O’Brien
Presented by Limerick Literary Festival in Honour of Kate O’Brien
Anna Abney is a historical novelist and author of the Measham Hall series of novels. Set in the seventeenth century, the novels follow the adventures of the Catholic Hawthorne family and their beloved Derbyshire estate. A family loosely based on her own ancestors, the Abneys of Measham.
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Anna Abney in interview with Paul O’Brien
After growing up in London, Anna lived in Ireland for thirteen years. She gained a BA in English Literature at Queens University, Belfast and wrote her PhD on the seventeenth century writer, Margaret Cavendish, under the supervision of Lisa Jardine at Queen Mary, University of London. She has taught English and Creative Writing at Queen Mary and the Open University. She has two grown up children and now lives in rural Kent with her screenwriter husband and their border collie.
As Madeline Dewhurst, Anna has also written journalism, drama and the contemporary novel Charity.
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