Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Goes Strolling

Georgina Lock was Senior Lecturer in English and Drama at Nottingham Trent University from 2002—2017. She has made four short films, including the prize-winning Short White Pleated (2002) which toured international film festivals. Her research publications include “Petticoat Sailor to She Crossing; a Writer's Reflections on Novelizing a Screenplay,” ed. Deborah Cartmell, Adaptations, Oxford University Press 10 (2017), and (with David Worrall) “Cross-Dressed Performance At The Theatrical Margins: Hannah Snell, The Manual Exercise And The New Wells Spa Theatre, Goodman's Fields, 1750” Huntington Library Quarterly 77 (2014), and “Performance and Performing in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Letters from The Embassy at Istanbul.” Britain and the Moslem World, ed. Gerald Maclean, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011.

She has written a new solo, The Walled Up Woman, which she performs in the character of a medieval anchoress, and she is currently co-writing a play about eighteenth-century slavery in Britain with David Worrall.