Margaret Preston, completed her Ph.D. at Boston College. She is a professor of history and teaches

at Augustana University. The author and co-editor of a number of books and articles

including Charitable Words: Gentlewomen, Social Control and the Language of Charity in

Nineteenth-Century Dublin (2004) and Gender, Medicine and the State in Ireland, 1750-1963

eds. Margaret Preston and Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2012)