Writer & historian
I live in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, with husband, Duncan, artist and maker, and our black Labrador, Gertie.
Writer
I write on whatever interests me – recently women’s history, landscape, memory, ideas of sanctuary…
My most recent work is a collection of short prose pieces reflecting on the landscape around my home (see below for further details).
Historian
Background in teaching in girls’ schools in Cambridge, London, Northampton and Oxford
Biography of the seventeenth-century proto-feminist, Rachel Speght, published by Liverpool University Press (English Association Monographs Series) in 2025
Essays in Huntington Library Quarterly, The Historical Journal and Sixteenth Century Journal
Latest work
August 2026
‘Burning Silence’
A collection of short prose pieces reflecting on landscape and the present moment.
Available at www.unusualpublications.com
‘This collection presents impressions of and reflections on time spent within a particular landscape – the hills and lowlands of Kirkcudbrightshire. From this localised milieu, my lens ranges broadly – to encompass both the distinctive characteristics of a place in time and the relationship between a landscape and the human witness in its midst.’
