My research specialism lies in children’s literature, specifically in focusing on issues of ideology in connection with the representation of the family in children’s fiction over the last two centuries. I am currently building on this specialism through an analysis of Welsh children’s literature, an as yet under-developed field whose exploration runs alongside the existing active research into Irish children’s literature which currently attracts international attention. In the future I intend to conduct research into Charlotte Yonge’s nineteenth-century works which would help to extend my specialism into Victorian women’s writing.