Career
She worked with Ruth First with whom she co-authored a 1980 book on Olive Schreiner, entitled Olive Schreiner (published by Deutsch, ). She studied at Girton College, Cambridge and was News Editor of Spare Rib before working on Schreiner. She then taught psychoanalysis at London University and published in Feminist Review and History Workshop Journal.
She worked for Free Association Books until she moved to the United States of America in 1989.