Author of An Idle Woman (Legend Press, 2024), based on the life of Frances Elliot, and Every Morning, So Far, I’m Alive: A Memoir (Otago University Press, 2019), a story about breakdown, recovery, nature and belonging.

In my previous life as a Professor of Victorian Literature, I wrote books about Jane Morris (and her husband, William) and women’s writing in the 19th and early 20th centuries.