Rachel Trethewey
Rachel Trethewey read History at St Edmund Hall, Oxford where she won the Philip Geddes Prize for student journalism. In her subsequent career in journalism she wrote features for the Daily Mail and Daily Express and reviewed books for The Independent. She was education correspondent at Westcountry Television. Returning to academia, she has an MA in Victorian Studies and a PHD in English from Exeter University.
Rachel has written five books, MISTRESS OF THE ARTS (Headline Review, 2002) PEARLS BEFORE POPPIES (The History Press, 2018) BEFORE WALLIS (The History Press, 2018) and THE CHURCHILL GIRLS was published by The History Press in the UK and as THE CHURCHILL SISTERS by St Martin’s Press in the US, both in 2021. Her latest book, MOTHERS OF THE MIND, has received the ‘Antonia Fraser Award’ from the Society of Authors.
Rachel is an elected fellow of the Royal Historical Society and lives in Devon with her family.