Jay Taverner

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Jay Taverner is the pseudonym for the writing partnership of Jacky Bratton and Jane Traies. [1] The pair were a long-established lesbian partnership [2] who met as undergraduates at St Anne's College, Oxford, in 1963. [3]

Their series of books deals with historical lesbian characters. [3]

Bratton went on to an academic career at the University of London, publishing on nineteenth-century popular culture and latterly concentrating on performance; she is now research professor in Theatre and Cultural History at Royal Holloway, University of London. [4]

In 2014, Traies finished a PhD at the University of Sussex looking at the lives of older lesbians in Britain. [5]

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References

  1. Gibson, Michelle; Deborah Townsend Meem (2006). Lesbian Academic Couples. Routledge. p. 23. ISBN   1-56023-619-1.
  2. "Taverner, Jay". CountryBookshop. Retrieved 28 January 2010.[ permanent dead link ]
  3. 1 2 "Jay Taverner: Hearts & Minds". GaydarNation. 11 June 2001. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
  4. "Jacky Bratton". Royal Holloway, University of London. July 2007. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
  5. "Jane Traies : University of Sussex".