Before Christine Poulson turned to crime, she was a respectable academic
with a PhD in History of Art and had written widely on nineteenth-century
art and literature. During her career as an art historian, she worked as
a curator of ceramics at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and as curator
for the William Morris Society at Kelmscott House in Hammersmith, London.
She taught for the Open University and was a lecturer in Art History at
a college in Cambridge. The city of Cambridge and the surrounding Fens,
with their unique, sometimes sinister atmosphere, provided the setting for
her first novel and she was spurred on by her own experience of being made
redundant.
Christine is now a research fellow at the Centre for Nineteenth Century
Studies at Sheffield. Her most recent work of non-fiction, a book on Arthurian
legend in British Art,1840-1920, was short listed for the Mythopeoic Award
in the USA in 2002.
Christine is happy to give readings from her work and to talk about how to write a first novel. You can contact her at christine@christinepoulson.co.uk.
She lives in a water-mill in Derbyshire with her husband and small daughter.
Christine Poulson is represented by Watson, Little.
christine@christinepoulson.co.uk