Kathryn Hughes’s first book was The Victorian Governess (Hambledon, 1993).  She followed it up with George Eliot: The Last Victorian (Fourth Estate, 1998), which won the James Tait Black Prize.  She is currently finishing a biography of Mrs Beeton, to be published next year by Fourth Estate.  Kathryn also writes for The Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement and the Mail on Sunday and appears very regularly on Front Row, Saturday Review and Woman’s Hour (BBC Radio 4) and Nightwaves (BBC Radio 3).  A docu-drama based on her biography of George Eliot was aired on BBC 1 in November 2002, for which she was the consultant.  Kathryn has lectured at several British universities, and now teaches on the MA in Lifewriting at the University of East Anglia.