About

I’m a part-time PhD student at the University of Sussex, researching the fiction of Florence Marryat.  I also work for the Doctoral School, providing digital research methods training to fellow PhDers. When not grappling with the ravages of modernity, I’m helping research a new biography of Queen Victoria.

In my spare time, such as it is, I also run Victorian Secrets, a small publishing company specialising in books from and about the nineteenth century. I’ve just published The Perfect Man: The Muscular Life and Times of Eugen Sandow, Victorian Strongman.

I live in Brighton with my partner, three cats, and thousands of (mostly Victorian) books.