Description
History has always had a complicated relationship with extraordinary women, erasing them, misreading them or forcing them into stories that were never really theirs.
In this powerful conversation, Tina Andrews restores Queen Charlotte Sophia to her full, complex power, Miranda Kaufmann returns overlooked heiresses to the centre of history, and Kate Evans uses the bold, rule-breaking form of the graphic novel to ask what Jane Austen’s world really looked like for women who refused to behave.
Chaired by Dr Jodie Matthews, this event brings together three writers, three forms and one urgent question: whose stories get told and by whom?
About the Authors
Tina Andrews
Tina Andrews is an award-winning author, screenwriter and playwright whose work explores hidden histories. Her novel Queen Charlotte Sophia: A Royal Affair was featured on ABC’s The View. Andrews also wrote and executive-produced the acclaimed CBS miniseries Sally Hemings: An American Scandal and Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, as well as the Warner Bros. film Why Do Fools Fall in Love, starring Halle Berry.
Miranda Kaufmann
Dr Miranda Kaufmann is the author of Black Tudors: The Untold Story (Oneworld, 2017), which was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize and the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize, and has sold over 50,000 copies, and Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery (2025). She is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of London’s Institute of Commonwealth Studies, an Honorary Fellow of the University of Liverpool, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Royal Society of Arts. She has written for The Times, Guardian, TLS and BBC History Magazine. Miranda lives in North Wales. She will be donating her profits from her new book, Heiresses, to reparative causes.
Kate Evans
Kate Evans is an author, cartoonist, activist and fibre artist.
She is the author of the internationally renowned historical works Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen and Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg in which she breaks new ground in formatting meticulously referenced, yet artistically coherent, comic-book representations of real life events.
Her graphic reportage from the Calais Jungle, Threads: From the Refugee Crisis, won the John Laurence Award, the Broken Frontier award for graphic non-fiction and was the first ever graphic work to be nominated for The Orwell Prize for journalism.
Other titles include Funny Weather, a graphic guide to climate change and Copse, about environmental protest, The Food of Love, on breastfeeding and Bump, about pregnancy and birth and the children’s book Don’t Call Me Princess.
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