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Maureen E. Mulvihill
Maureen E. Mulvihill, an elected member of the Princeton Research Forum, NJ, and formerly associate fellow, Institute for Research in History, New York City, is a rare book collector and specialist on early women writers. She earned a Ph.D. at Wisconsin (1982), with post-doctoral work at Columbia University’s Rare Book School, The Yale Center for British Art and (as NEH Fellow) The Johns Hopkins University. Her book credits include editions of ‘Ephelia’ (NY, 1992; UK, 2003); Mary Leadbeater (Alexander Street Press, VA, 2008); and, as Advisory Editor, Ireland and the Americas, 3 vols (ABC-Clio, 2008). She is a contributor to the Oxford DNB, the DLB, the Dictionary of Irish Biography, the Irish Literary Supplement, the Literary Encyclopedia (in late 2018), and many journals and essay collections. Her recent essays, on Swift, Rubens, Veronese, early emblem books, and Lady Drury’s ‘painted closet’, are hosted online. In 2016, her critiques of new editions of Anne Killigrew, Hester Pulter and Margaret Cavendish were hosted (online) by Rare Book Hub, San Francisco. Her rare book collection (early women writers) is profiled in Fine Books & Collections magazine (Autumn 2016). She was a Wertheim Study reader, New York Public Library (1990s), and vice president of the Florida Bibliophile Society (2012–15). In the 1990s, she was a visting professor of Multimedia Research Methodologies, Fordham University-Lincoln Ctr. Her essay, ‘Casting a Wider Net: The Multimedia Research Initiative’ (Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 22 [1993]), was an early contribution to media ecology. Her representation (2001) of the controversial ‘Ephelia’ subject (