Jay Taverner is the

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for the writing partnership of Jacky Bratton and Jane Traies. The pair were a long-established

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partnership who met as undergraduates at

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in 1963. Their series of books deals with historical lesbian characters. Bratton went on to an academic career at the

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, publishing on nineteenth-century

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and latterly concentrating on performance; she is now Research Professor in Theatre and Cultural History at

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

Publications

* ''Rebellion'' (

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1997) * ''Hearts and Minds'' (Diva Books 2001) * ''Something Wicked'' (Onlywomen Press 2002)

References

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