Eleanor Fitzsimons is a researcher, writer and journalist who specialises in historical and current feminist issues. She has an MA (first class honours) in Women, Gender and Society from University College Dublin. In 2013 she was awarded the Keats-Shelley Essay Prize and was runner-up for the Biographers' Club Tony Lothian Prize. Her work has been published in a range of newspapers and journals including The Sunday Times, The Guardian, History Today and The Irish Times, and she is a regular radio and television contributor. Her book Wilde's Women was shortlisted for the Tony Lothian Prize in 2014