 In the US she started the first journal devoted to women writers and more recently in the UK she has been the co-founder with Marie Mulvey-Roberts of "Women's Writing".Since retirement she has revised "The Secret Life of Aphra Behn" and published two novels, "A Man of Genius"
, and an Austen spinoff, "Lady Susan Plays the Game".In 2018, she published "Radiation Diaries," a frank and scholarly account of a month of radiotherapy treatment.