My debut novel, Bronte’s Mistress (2020), is about Lydia Robinson, the married woman who had an affair with Branwell Bronte, the Bronte sis...

Over the past few weeks I've looked at a range of female characters who appear in fictional Victorian trials, considering novels and sh...

A nineteenth-century divorce court Moving on from the transparent innocence of Mary Barton and Esther Lyon , and the deceitful doublene...

‘But Lady Audley doesn’t appear in court!’ I imagine quick-witted readers of M.E. Braddon’s 1862 novel Lady Audley’s Secret protesting. Sh...

A nineteenth-century divorce court The court, much like the theatre, is a place of revelation and display, and trials, inquests and oth...

A nineteenth-century divorce court The court, much like the theatre, is a place of revelation and display, and trials, inquests and oth...