Rachel Trethewey

Trethewey read history at St Edmund Hall Oxford, where she won the Philip Geddes Prize for student journalism. In her subsequent career she wrote for the Daily Mail, Daily Express, and The Independent. She then gained an M.A. in Victorian Studies at The University of Exeter in 2013 and then completed a Ph.D. on the 18th Century educationalist and writer Anna Letitia Barbauld.