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A Good Read - Roma Agrawal and Kate Lister - BBC Sounds A structural engineer and a historian of sex share favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.

I am beyond words grateful @DrKateLister for recommending my book Wedlock as your Good Read on BBC Radio 4 today! Very flattered and honoured. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Ooh me too! And the power of three!

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Literary Prize 2026 – Benjamin Franklin House

benjaminfranklinhouse.org/education/li.... Calling all budding young writers! Here's your chance to show your talents and win up to £750!

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I'm literally writing about this case right now for my next book SLEUTH-HOUND, about Joseph Bell, the Scottish doctor who inspired the creation of Sherlock Holmes, and the milieu of medicine, mystery, and crime that surrounded him. I can't wait to share this book with you in 2026!

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Three marble sculptures of women wearing veils and flowered crowns on their heads.

Three marble sculptures of women wearing veils and flowered crowns on their heads.

Veiled Figures by Raffaele Monti (1818–1881). Monti was an Italian sculptor, author and poet born in Milan. He studied under his father, the noted sculptor Gaetano Matteo Monti in the Imperial Academy. In 1846, Monti travelled to England and later settled there.

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That's a real eye-opener!

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Thank you Richard! That's very kind of you. It is horror too in a way - in 18th-century England.

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Finding Dr Garvie: the island GP whose evocative images captured Orkney life Dressed in her jodhpurs, Fair Isle sweater with matching tammie and camera slung over her shoulder, Dr. Beatrice Garvie cut a striking figure on the…

Whoah! Lovely @sandradick.bsky.social piece on Beatrice Garvie, doctor, feminist, and photographer on North Ronaldsay @dohertyta.bsky.social @wendymoore99.bsky.social @sarasheridan.bsky.social @katewomersley.com @milesmack.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2502551...

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Sign the Petition Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training

Please support! Meta is using authors' work to train AI without recognition or payment. Including 3 of my books.

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Jack and Eve: Two Women In Love and At War | Oxford Literary Festival Wendy Moore - Jack and Eve: Two Women In Love and At War

oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e.... Just arrived in glorious Oxford. Do join me tomorrow April 1 at 12 noon to hear about two inspiring women - JACK AND EVE - and their exploits in love and war. #oxford #lgbtqi #suffragettes

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Love this. Spotted in a women's loo in south London.

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Jack and Eve: Two Women In Love and At War | Oxford Literary Festival Wendy Moore - Jack and Eve: Two Women In Love and At War

I'm speaking a week today - on April 1 at 12 noon - at Oxford Literary Festival on my latest book JACK AND EVE abt two wild, brave women who were suffragettes, lovers and heroes of the First World War. Do join me! #LGBTQ #oxford #fww

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Thank you so much. I'm very glad you enjoyed the book - and even that it made you cry. He certainly was an amazing man.

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Jack and Eve: Two Women In Love and At War | Oxford Literary Festival Wendy Moore - Jack and Eve: Two Women In Love and At War

I'm bringing JACK AND EVE to Oxford! Talking about two incredible women who were suffragettes, war heroes and lovers. Do join me.

oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...

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A pilgrimage to the house where medical history hero Ignaz Semmelweiss lived and is buried - now a medical history museum - in Budapest. Semmelweiss campaigned for doctors to wash their hands to get rid of germs and went mad because nobody believed him. @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social

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...2/including 2018 biog by Lucy Fisher. Otherwise maybe trawl through The Women's Suffrage Movement - Reference Guide by Elizabeth Crawford and various books by June Purvis. Main library sources are Women's Library at LSE and Museum of London. @lselibrary.bsky.social @gillianmurphy.bsky.social

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The main example I know of off the top of my head was Emily Wilding Davison who died running in front of the king's horse. There were questions then and since as to her mental health. She had also thrown herself from a balcony in prison. There has been lots written about her already of course...

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It's an honour to be speaking tonight at the Royal College of Surgeons for the Women in Surgery celebration of International Women's Day. I'm talking about inspirational doctors, Louisa Garrett Anderson and Flora Murray, who ran a military hospital in London in WW1. @hunterianmuseum.bsky.social

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Jack and Eve: Two Suffragettes in Love and at War Learn more about the work of women in war and lesbian identity in the twentieth century.

I'm speaking tom night - Feb 27 6.30pm - at Stratford Library, 3 The Grove E15 1EL, about Vera 'Jack' Holme and Evelina Haverfield, two extraordinary women who were suffragettes, lovers and First World War heroes. Part of LGBTQ History Month.
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JACK AND EVE: TWO WOMEN IN LOVE AND AT WAR – A talk by Wendy Moore Join journalist Wendy Moore as she explores Jack and Eve's remarkable story of unconventional love, loyalty and bravery.

I'm speaking on Sat Feb 22 2pm at North Kensington Library about Vera 'Jack' Holme and Evelina Haverfield as part of Serbian Culture Month to remember the women heroes of the First World War. Free but book here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jack-and-e...

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Very much enjoyed chatting to Selina MacKenzie on TRE just now about my book JACK AND EVE. Now out in paperback.

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On Selina MacKenzie's 'Lifestyles' from 14.00CET, @wendymoore99.bsky.social with 'Jack and Eve: Two Suffragettes in Love and at War', and Leila Taylor on 'Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread'

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Congratulations!

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UK and US/Canada versions of my book, Immaculate Forms, are now both out in the wild. And UK paperback cover (coming in June) agreed upon!

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Spotted! In Foyles at Waterloo Station. @atlanticbooks.bsky.social @foylesforbooks.bsky.social

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You are never truly naked if you are sporting a dashing mustache!

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Perfect time for Valentine’s Day - ordered!

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