Lonsdale, Sarah: - Sarah Lonsdale has been a British journalist for twenty five years, from reporting for the Reading Chronicle to the Observer newspaper. During her time on the Observer she specialised in stories concerning social justice. She has written for a wide variety of British publications, and read Modern and Medieval Languages (French and Italian) at the University of Cambridge. She has a PhD in the representation of journalists and the newspaper press in British literature 1900-1939 from the University of Kent. She is a senior lecturer in journalism at City University London. She published her first book, The Journalist in British Fiction and Film: Guarding the Guardians from 1900 to the Present in 2016. Her second book, Rebel Women Between the Wars: Writers, Activists, Adventurers was published by Manchester University Press in 2020.