Jane is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Her fifth and latest book (2025) is No Country for a Woman: The Adventurous Life of Lady Dorothy Mills, Explorer and Writer, which was shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards. Others include Tangled Souls: Love and Scandal among the Victorian Aristocracy, the first to focus on ‘bad boy’ Soul member, Harry Cust; and Duchesses: Living in 21st Century Britain, which looks for the first time at the lives of Britain’s non-royal duchesses. Jane writes for various publications and has appeared on TV and radio.

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Daisy Dunn is the author of In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny (William Collins, 2019), Of Gods and Men: 100 Stories from Ancient Greece and Rome (Head of Zeus, 2019), Homer: A Ladybird Expert Book (Michael Joseph, 2019), Catullus’ Bedspread: The Life of Rome’s Most Erotic Poet (William Collins, 2016) and The Poems of Catullus: A New Translation (William Collins, 2016). She writes for a number of newspapers and magazines and has presented two short films for BBC Ideas. She has a doctorate in Classics and the History of Art and is editor of ARGO: A Hellenic Review.