Hello everyone! It’s a nice moment in all our lives to share the below piece, which I recently published on my academic blog. For those of you who don’t know, I am an author and also an independent academic who researches historic children’s literature, juvenilia and girlhood. I love what I do very much (and sidebar: I’m always here for opportunities! do feel free to reach out) and I hope you enjoy reading the below deep dive. It features the Cambridge Spy Ring, a liberal arts experiment in Devon, an Agatha Christie cameo, and the youngest author in the world. Enjoy!

(please feel free to pass this onto your content commissioning chums as well 😉).