Career
Her particular interests as a biographer are "the relationship between literature, politics and history," (which was the basis for her life of John Milton, 2008) and the rediscovery of neglected lives, the motivation both for her book about Bess Throckmorton, the wife of Sir Walter Ralegh (2004), and her current work on female composers: Sounds and Sweet Airs:the forgotten women of classical music which is due to be published by Oneworld Publications in 2016. She was Lecturer in Literature at the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford between 2003 and 2010, and remains a Fellow of Kellogg College.
