Mary L Shannon

Dr Mary L. Shannon’s new book Billy Waters is Dancing: Or, How a Black Sailor Found Fame in Regency Britain (Yale 2024) tells the story of Regency London’s forgotten Black celebrity. Mary is a writer and Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Roehampton, London. She's the author of the award-winning Dickens, Reynolds, and Mayhew on Wellington Street and a self-confessed fan of archives, the dustier the better. Find her at marylshannon.com.