Here and now: Meet the Medieval Women

This event took place on 29 October 2024. The information below is correct as of the publication date.

In this keynote lecture to open the Medieval Women exhibition series, distinguished author Kate Mosse - whose own work inhabits and illuminates the medieval world - reveals how women exerted their influence across private, public and spiritual realms, taking us inside the lives of women from a variety of professions and backgrounds.

This event accompanied the British Library exhibition Medieval Women: In Their Own Words (25 October – 2 March 2025).

Kate Mosse CBE is an award-winning novelist, playwright, performer, campaigner, interviewer and non-fiction writer. The author of ten novels and short-story collections, her books have sold over five million copies, been translated into thirty-eight languages and published in more than forty countries. Fiction includes the multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy (Labyrinth, Sepulchre, Citadel), The Joubert Family Chronicles (The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship, The Map of Bones) and bestselling Gothic fiction including The Taxidermist’s Daughter and The Winter Ghosts.

Her highly-acclaimed non-fiction includes An Extra Pair of Hands: A Story of Caring & Everyday Acts of Love, and Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World, which inspired her one-woman theatre touring show. Her new podcast, The Matilda Effect, launches in summer 2024. She is the Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Authors, and a Visiting Professor of Contemporary Fiction and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester. She is also an Ambassador for Parkinsons UK, and recently joined the Board of the British Library.