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Naomi Walker Editor & Illustrator

Katie Baker was awarded a PhD in English Literature from the University of Chester in 2018. Herresearch focuses on female sexuality, domesticity, and the 'businesswoman' in the work of nineteenth-century women writers. She has published on Elizabeth Gaskell and Margaret Oliphant and is currently an independent researcher.

Naomi Walker is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Chester and an Associate Lecturer at the Open University. Her PhD research was based on the two Shropshire feminist writers, Mary Webb (1881-1927) and Mary Cholmondeley (1859-1925), and she used G.I.S. (Geographical Information Systems) software to plot their lives and works within the Shropshire area.