Katharine
Mcmahon
Author, Tutor, Head of Outreach, Royal Literary Fund.
Katharine is the author of ten novels, including The Hour of Separation, The Rose of Sebastopol, The Alchemist’s Daughter and The Crimson Rooms
She has run Guardian Masterclasses on Historical Fiction: Find a Guardian article, and accompanying e-book here.
She has also spent many years training within the Criminal Justice System, served on the Sentencing Council of England and Wales, and on the Judicial Appointments Commission.
She is currently Head of Outreach with the Royal Literary Fund, one of the UK’s foremost literary charities. To find out more about her work developing projects within the public sector and the community, visit the RLF website.
Read Katharine's blog to discover more about the writing life.
Article on Roger Robinson’s Poem On Nurses
University of Hertfordshire: Festival of Ideas Reimagined: Katharine reads from The Rose of Sebastopol
Lockdown Litfest: An interview with Paul Blezard
Read my article for The Royal Literary Fund’s on-line magazine, Collected, on how there are no boundaries between historical and contemporary fiction: https://www.rlf.org.uk/showcase/memory-and-fiction/
Books
Katharine’s emerging theme, through ten novels, is women and their historical struggle to find a voice. She has gained inspiration from astonishing women ranging from Mary Ward, whose family was intimately entwined with the Gunpowder Plot, to Carrie Morrison, the first woman to qualify as a solicitor. In her latest book she explores what it means to be a heroine, and the conflict between domestic duty, love and vocation.
Browse this website to discover the women behind the fiction.
The astonishing women who inspired my fiction...
