I am a historian interested in histories of feminism and in questions about history and the individual life. My publications include: Biography and History, Forthcoming April 2010, Palgrave Macmillan (History and Theory series)
"Destined to be Wives: The Sisters of Beatrice Webb", Oxford University Press, 1986, "Victorian Feminists", Oxford University Press, 1992," English Feminism, c1780-1970, Oxford University Press", 1997, Bombay to Bloomsbury: the Stracheys, c 1850-1950, Oxford University Press, 2005, Biography and History, Bloomsbury 2012, Women and the Autobiographical Impulse, Bloomsbury 2023. I was one of the editors of the Companion to Australian Feminism, Oxford 1998.