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Deborah Philips Editor & Author

Kate Aughterson is Principal Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Brighton, UK, specializing in women’s writing and early modern drama. Her books include Renaissance Woman (1995), Webster: The Tragedies (2001), Aphra Behn: The Comedies (2003), Shakespeare: The Late Plays (2013) and she is co-author of Jim Crace: Into the Wilderness (2018) and Shakespeare and Gender (2020).


Deborah Philips is Professor of Literature and Cultural History at the University of Brighton, UK. Her books include: Writing Romance: Women’s Fiction 1945–present (2006), Fairground Attractions (2012)The Trojan Horse (with Garry Whannel, 2015) and Brave New Causes (with Ian Haywood, 1999). Her study of Sandy Wilson, And this is My Friend Sandy, will be published in 2