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My agent is Caroline Dawnay at Lexington Literary. For enquiries relating to publishing and writing, please contact her at [email protected].

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More from Alexandra

On Woolf

Secret Life of Books podcast on the The Waves

'Woolf in Winter', a published lecture on seasons, rituals, ice and love.

'A Walk of One's Own', four radio programmes following Woolf on foot.

On artists

Ashmolean NOW exhibition from November 2026: Samuel Palmer and Garry Fabian Miller. My catalogue essay is called 'Magic Circles'.

Art, War, and Resurrection. An essay for Revisiting Modern British Art, ed. by Jo Baring. This work on 'resurrection' grew from thinking about illness, revival, and not getting better.

On history

A rural history classic from Virago: I introduce a new edition of Mary Chamberlain's Fenwomen, now reissued in a 50th anniversary edition.