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Joanna Penglase has a BA (Hons) degree, majoring in literature, from the University of Sydney, and a PhD from Macquarie University. She is a long-time member of the Jane Austen Society of Australia and edits its refereed journal Sensibilities.

She is a founding member of the Anthony Trollope Appreciation Group in Sydney. As an author she has written Orphans of the Living: Growing Up in Care in 20th Century Australia and she was co-author of When the War Came to Australia.