- Dickens and his Demons (pdf)
- Ten Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Virginia Woolf (pdf)
- Choosing Perfection: Sylvia Plath (pdf)
- 'The Possibilities of Biography' (pdf), The Hudson Review (British issue, Spring 2020)
- Little Women Writ Large (pdf)
- How Letitia Elizabeth Landon sold her image and bought poetic fame (pdf)
- The True Nature of Woman: Mary Wollstonecraft and Virginia Woolf (pdf)
- Dr Johnson’s Circle (pdf)
- ‘Dark-Hearted Dreamer: The Double Life of Kenneth Grahame’
- Kreutzer Quartet: Virginia Woolf’s Music, with pre-concert talk on Virginia Woolf.
- What Women Might Be, Essay on Shaw’s women in the programme for My Fair Lady at the Lincoln Center, New York
- On the Art and Nonsense of Edward Lear
- Charlotte Bronte’s letters to the poet laureate, Robert Southey
- Foreword to Persephone edition of Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary
- Foreword to The Brontës in Brussels by Helen McEwan (Peter Owen, 2014)
- ‘Memory and Desire’: What Eliot’s Life Can Tell Us about The Waste Land. Cambridge University Press Companion to The Waste Land
- ‘Too Much Suicide?’ Questions the emphasis on suicide in narratives of Virginia Woolf’s life. Canvas www.charleston.org.uk/too-much-suicide/. Also on the British Library website.
- ‘Life’ on the TS Eliot website from Faber
- The Possibilities of Biography (6 Dec 2015) (a series of radio talks by South African writers)
- On friendship
- The Death Mask
- Foreword to 'Before Victoria', an exhibition at the New York Public Library
- My favourite novel: Persuasion
- Mary Wollstonecraft's America
- The Wordless Space Between the Sexes
- Eliot's Search for Perfection
- 'Vivienne Eliot' from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- 'Virginia Woolf' from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Leonard Woolf's The Wise Virgins
Podcasts
On Mary Wollstonecraft
On Emily Dickinson with Martha Nell Smith
part one
part two
Selected Talks
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DISCUSSION OF ELIOT’S ‘FOUR QUARTETS’ ON RADIO, WITH LORD HARRIES AND THE REVD JOHN VALENTINE: ‘FOCUS ON TS ELIOT’ www.premier.org.uk/poetry
- Virginia Woolf’s Diaries
- THE FRONTIER OF BIOGRAPHY
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- Talk on 'THE WORLD WITHIN': THE BRONTËS AND EMILY DICKINSON.
'From Life', a painting by Victoria Brookland