Congratulations to Kathryn Bryan, PhD student in French, who has just been awarded the inaugural prize by the MHRA's journal, Modern Language Review, for the best article published in 2023. Kathryn is completing her PhD thesis with Professor Nick White on the representation of abortion in French novels from the first decade of the twentieth century. She is interviewed about her article, 'Fantine in the Bell Époque: Representation of the Fille-Mère in L'Assiette au beurre (1902) and Marcelle Tinayre's La Rebelle (1905)’

An interview about her article, ‘Fantine in the Belle Époque: Representation of the Fille-Mère in L'Assiette au beurre (1902) and Marcelle Tinayre's La Rebelle (1905)’ can be found on the MHRA website.