I wrote about my three year old's fears during lockdown for A Garden Among Fires: A Lockdown Anthology, edited by Marina Benjamin and published by Dodo Ink. You can buy the ebook here.
I wrote a preface for Amber Reeve's A Lady and her Husband, published by Persephone books. Buy the book here.
My preface for the Vintage edition of Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey is here. You can buy the book here.
Latest reviews:
Some writing about the Brontës
She Too: Why we should appreciate the modern Anne Brontë
A mega round-up of books about motherhood (with a shout-out to Anne Brontë too)
She Too: Why we should appreciate the modern Anne Brontë
A mega round-up of books about motherhood (with a shout-out to Anne Brontë too)
Where are all the heroine mothers in fiction (and did Anne Brontë write the best one)?
Anne Brontë: the sister who got there first
The Brontës' very real and raw Irish roots
The Brontës and Hester Chapone
Anne Brontë was the most radical sister
Rediscovering Anne Brontë
How sibling rivalry made Anne the "other" Brontë
Bring Charlotte Brontë's Little Book home to Yorkshire
Anne Brontë: the sister who got there first
The Brontës' very real and raw Irish roots
The Brontës and Hester Chapone
Anne Brontë was the most radical sister
Rediscovering Anne Brontë
How sibling rivalry made Anne the "other" Brontë
Bring Charlotte Brontë's Little Book home to Yorkshire
Baddies in books: Bertha Rochester
Alison Case's Nelly Dean
Claire Harman's biography of Charlotte Brontë
Mallory Ortberg's Texts from Jane Eyre
Deborah Lutz's The Brontë Cabinet
Sam Baker's The Woman Who Ran
Jane Eyre: reflecting on the novel with Sarah Waters, Jeanette Winterson & others
Alison Case's Nelly Dean
Claire Harman's biography of Charlotte Brontë
Mallory Ortberg's Texts from Jane Eyre
Deborah Lutz's The Brontë Cabinet
Sam Baker's The Woman Who Ran
Jane Eyre: reflecting on the novel with Sarah Waters, Jeanette Winterson & others
Why Villette is the real grown-up Charlotte Brontë novel
Reader I Married Him, edited by Tracy Chevalier
Where to start with the BrontësReader I Married Him, edited by Tracy Chevalier
Sharon Wright's The Mother of the Brontës
Isabel Greenberg's Glass Town
Some writing about heroines
Girls, pick your bedtime reading with care
Can men write good heroines?
What Elizabeth Bennet taught me about romance
Can a good book actually change our personalities?
Anne of Green Gables and the power of the imagination
Unsung literary heroines
Bad girls gone good: Angelina as Maleficent
Cottage loaf for Virginia Woolf
When Meryl becomes Emmeline
How to be a new year heroine
Top 5 literary heroines every young girl should meet
Seven fictional women whose life stories inspire us
Sophia Kingshill's Mermaids
Rachel Cooke's Her Brilliant Career
RIP Doris Lessing
Caitlin Moran's How to Build a Girl
Nina Stibbe's Man at the Helm
Patricia Duncker's Sophie and the Sibyl
Five best novels about spinsters
Why The Hunger Games's killer Katniss is a great female role model
Olivia Laing's The Lonely City
Writing about life
You can take the girl out of Baghdad....
Writing about theatre
Why the Bechdel Test doesn't (always) work
Girl meets boy: my quest to write a feminist rom com
Performance anxiety
Girls, pick your bedtime reading with care
Can men write good heroines?
What Elizabeth Bennet taught me about romance
Can a good book actually change our personalities?
Anne of Green Gables and the power of the imagination
Unsung literary heroines
Bad girls gone good: Angelina as Maleficent
Cottage loaf for Virginia Woolf
When Meryl becomes Emmeline
How to be a new year heroine
Top 5 literary heroines every young girl should meet
Seven fictional women whose life stories inspire us
Sophia Kingshill's Mermaids
Rachel Cooke's Her Brilliant Career
RIP Doris Lessing
Caitlin Moran's How to Build a Girl
Nina Stibbe's Man at the Helm
Patricia Duncker's Sophie and the Sibyl
Five best novels about spinsters
Why The Hunger Games's killer Katniss is a great female role model
Olivia Laing's The Lonely City
You can take the girl out of Baghdad....
Writing about theatre
Why the Bechdel Test doesn't (always) work
Girl meets boy: my quest to write a feminist rom com
Performance anxiety
We Are All Invited (about Fun Palaces and Shelagh Delaney)
Distillations, Sucker-Punches, Sugar Hits (on the joy of writing short plays)
Theatre should reflect society—and boldly imagine ways for it to change.
An index to Curtain Up, a theatrical history column I wrote for the Guardian, is here.
Researching my play, The Last Wolf in Scotland
Other writing
Most of my Guardian archive is here.
Distillations, Sucker-Punches, Sugar Hits (on the joy of writing short plays)
Theatre should reflect society—and boldly imagine ways for it to change.
An index to Curtain Up, a theatrical history column I wrote for the Guardian, is here.
Researching my play, The Last Wolf in Scotland
Other writing
Most of my Guardian archive is here.
