About Elisabeth

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A magazine journalist who has worked in London, Sydney and Hong Kong, Elisabeth has been a freelance feature writer since November 2011. She has written for magazines such as Tatler (Hong Kong), Zest, Top Sante and Slimming. She specialises in human-interest stories.

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She has written a biography on the children’s author Edith Nesbit, most famous for her novel The Railway Children (1906), published by Pen & Sword. She is currently working on her second biography, which is about the author Kenneth Grahame who wrote The Wind in the Willows.

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In Australia, Elisabeth lived in the outback of Alice Springs where she worked as a journalist and photographer, covering events including Prince Charles’ visit in 2005. In Sydney for Foxtel satellite television magazine her interviewees included Ian Thorpe and Andie MacDowell.

A keen open-water swimmer, Elisabeth swam across the English Channel in 2002. Since then, she has swum around the Sydney Opera House, along the River Thames and across the Italian Cinque Terre. She is a volunteer with the Royal Life Saving Society.

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Elisabeth read Combined Arts at Durham University and gained a postgraduate diploma in periodical journalism from City University.

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She lives in London with her husband and three children.