Books in the Handheld Research series

this remarkable cross-dressing woman, poet and activist, recovering an important part of British lesbian history and creating a testament to queerness and gender identity in Valentine's transgressive life.

In 2003 the former Women's Press editor and critic Sarah LeFanu published her acclaimed biography of Rose Macaulay with Virago Press. Dreaming of Rose is a memoir of a woman juggling the demands of teaching, research and writing while patching together a living.