Manuela D’Amore is Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of Catania (Italy). She has translated and edited Eliza Haywood’s
Anti-Pamela (1741), W.M. Rossetti’s
The P.R.B. Journal (1848-1853) and more recently Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s
Beauty and the Beast (1867). Her latest monographs are
Essays in Defence of the Female Sex. Custom, Education and Authority in Seventeenth-Century England, co-written with Michèle Lardy (Paris Sorbonne I) (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012), and
The Royal Society and the Discovery of the Two Sicilies. Southern Routes in the Grand Tour (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).