Annette Rubery

In 1999, I graduated from the University of Warwick with a degree in English and Comparative Literary Studies. In 2012, I published Lichfield Then & Now with The History Press: 45 historic photographs paired with 45 contemporary colour versions of the same views, taken by me and captioned with nuggets of history which I unearthed from local archives.

Since 2014 I’ve been researching and writing a biography of the Irish actress Peg Woffington. I’ve presented papers about her at Bath Spa University, NUI Galway (Ireland), and St Hugh’s College, Oxford. I have published occasional pieces on Peg Woffington for academic audiences, such as “Visual Art as Celebrity Memoir: The Paradox of Peg Woffington’s Sick-bed Portrait” which appeared in the journal Life Writing and in a subsequent book chapter for Routledge. In 2020, an essay I wrote about Peg’s travesty performances won the Society for Theatre Research’s New Scholar’s Prize and will shortly be published in Theatre Notebook.

Find out more on Annette's website: http://www.annetterubery.co.uk/