Throughout the world in 2024 there are many disenfranchised people. It’s likely that over half of them will be women.
One of the over-arching themes of my writing is women’s path into education and greater enfranchisement.
I’ve written about women struggling to get to the local primary school – Moving On, Staying Put for DC Thomson’s People’s Friend. About women struggling to avoid a being a wife should be enough existence – Mariah’s Marriage for MuseItUp. About women fighting to attend chemistry classes and thereafter qualify as doctors – A Class of their Own for DC Thomson again. About a woman struggling to recover from injury and avoid the marriage that would rob her of her inheritance – Courting the Countess – Joffe Books.
I hope much of it with humour, drama and great dialogue (cue references to te influence of Georgette Heyer) but of course that’s for the reader to decide. I was very touched by a private messagr during the publication of Moving On, Staying Put to tell me how much it was being enjoyed as a story about where we lived. It’s lovely to hear from readers.
How does your work address an issue that is relevant on International Women’s Day?
Anne
Novels Now 
The publishing department of National Museums Scotland (my part-time place of work) recently published Scottish Women Writers 1800 to the Great War, accounts of women who wrote, despite the various obstacles in their way. https://shop.nms.ac.uk/products/scottish-women-writers-from-1800-to-the-great-war
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