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Donoghue was born in Dublin, Ireland, in on October 24, 1969. She is the daughter of Frances née Rutledge and academic and literary critic Denis Donoghue, and she is one of eight siblings.

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She received her first-class honors Bachelor of Arts degree from University College Dublin, in English and French, in 1990, followed by a Ph.D. in English from Girton College, Cambridge. She lived in a women's co-op while at Girton, an experience that inspired her short story The Welcome. Her doctoral thesis focused on friendships between women and men in 18th-century fiction.

At Cambridge, she also met her future partner, Christine Roulston, a Canadian who is now a professor of French and Women's Studies at the University of Western Ontario.

In 1998, they moved to Canada, and in 2004, Donoghue became a Canadian citizen. The two now live in London, Ontario with their two children, Finn and Una, to whom Room is dedicated. Biography - About Emma Donoghue DATAL