Jay Taverner

Jay Taverner is the pseudonym for the writing partnership of Jacky Bratton and Jane Traies.^[1] The pair were a long-established lesbian partnership^[2] who met as undergraduates at St Anne's College, Oxford, in 1963.^[3]

Their series of books deals with historical lesbian characters.^[3]

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.^[4]

In 2014, Traies finished a PhD at the University of Sussex looking at the lives of older lesbians in Britain.^[5]

Publications

• Rebellion (Onlywomen Press, 1997)
• Hearts and Minds (Diva Books, 2001)
• Something Wicked (Onlywomen Press, 2002)