Rachel Hewitt

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ISBN 978-1847082541
  • A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind (Granta Books, 2017); ISBN   978-1847085740
  • In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors (Chatto & Windus, 2023); ISBN   978-1784742898
  • Awards & Fellowships

    Personal life

    Hewitt has three daughters, and lives in Yorkshire. [20] She was married to Pete Newbon, a lecturer in Romantic and Victorian Literature at Northumbria University in Newcastle, who died in January 2022. [21] She is a keen runner and has been running since her mid-20s. [22]

    References

    1. "Staff Profile - English Literature, Language and Linguistics - Newcastle University". www.ncl.ac.uk. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
    2. "About". 22 March 2023.
    3. https://www.literatureandscience.org/issues/JLS_1_1/JLS_vol_1_no_1_hewitt.pdf
    4. "Early Career Fellowships 2009 | The Leverhulme Trust". www.leverhulme.ac.uk.
    5. "Map Of A Nation".
    6. "RSL Jerwood Awards". 30 November 2016.
    7. "Queen Mary has double success in BBC academic talent contest". Queen Mary University of London. 28 June 2011.
    8. Brown, Mark (27 June 2011). "X Factor-style search for 10 academics from generation think". The Guardian.
    9. "A Revolution of Feeling".
    10. "Rachel Hewitt: A Revolution of Feeling review - from passions to emotions". theartsdesk.com. 10 December 2017.
    11. "Royal Society of Literature » Rachel Hewitt". rsliterature.org. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
    12. "Rachel Hewitt". Edinburgh Festival. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
    13. Clark, Alex (20 April 2023). "In Her Nature by Rachel Hewitt review – reclaiming the great outdoors". The Guardian.
    14. "Norma Clarke - Running Free". Literary Review. 17 October 2023.
    15. "Taylor and Hewitt win Eccles British Library Writer's Award". The Bookseller.
    16. "Early Career Fellowships 2009 | The Leverhulme Trust". www.leverhulme.ac.uk.
    17. "RSL Jerwood Awards". 30 November 2016.
    18. "Taylor and Hewitt win Eccles British Library Writer's Award". The Bookseller.
    19. "Royal Society of Literature » Rachel Hewitt". rsliterature.org. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
    20. O'Kelly, Lisa (2 April 2023). "Writer Rachel Hewitt: 'Running is fundamentally important to me, physically and emotionally'". The Observer via The Guardian.
    21. Frazer, Jenni (19 January 2022). "Tributes paid to academic and activist against antisemitism Pete Newbon". Jewish News. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
    22. "Who runs the world?". The Economist. 29 April 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
    Dr
    Rachel Hewitt
    Born
    Rachel Hewitt
    Spouse
    (d. 2022)
    AwardsRoyal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for non-fiction,
    Eccles British Library Writer's Award
    Academic background
    Education Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MA),
    Queen Mary University, London, (PhD)
    Thesis Dreaming o'er the Map of Things: The Ordnance Survey and Literature of the British Isles, 1747-1842 (2007)