Jay Taverner

Jay Taverner is the pseudonym for the writing partnership of Jacky Bratton and Jane Traies. The pair are a long-established lesbian partnership that met as undergraduates at St Anne's College, Oxford in 1963.

Bratton went on to an academic career at the University of London, publishing on nineteenth-century popular culture and latterly concentrating on performance; she is now Research Professor in Theatre and Cultural History at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Traies worked in education, heading two secondary schools before becoming an educational consultant.

Their series of books deals with historical lesbian characters, and is reminiscent of the diaries of Anne Lister.

Publications

* "Rebellion" (Onlywomen Press 1997)
* "Hearts and Minds" (Diva Books 2001)
* "Something Wicked" (Onlywomen Press 2002)
* "Revolution" (not yet published)