Baker, Audry (2015) The portrayal of disability in young adult fiction: a critical examination. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.
Keyes, Marian Thérèse (2010) “Taken from the Life” Mimetic Truth and Ekphrastic Eloquence in the Writings of Anna Maria Fielding Hall (1800-1881). PhD thesis, Dublin City University.
Dunbar, Carole (2001) The Other Nation - an examination of the depiction of the poor in the children’s fiction of Mrs Molesworth, Mrs Ewing,Silas Hocking and Frances Hodgson Burnett. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.