International Health Humanities Network Membership

Sara Read is a literary historian and senior lecturer at Loughborough University. She researches aspects of women's reproduction health in early modern England. Her first monograph was Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England (Palgrave, 2013). More recently, Sara has turned to fiction and published her first research-led novel, about a country midwife from 1665, as The Gossips' Choice (Wild Pressed Books, 2020) last year. A sequel is coming out next spring.