Rachel Hewitt

Rachel Hewitt is a writer and lecturer in creative writing at Newcastle University.[1]

Hewitt attended the University of Oxford (BA and PhD) and read her master's degree at Queen Mary University, London.[2] She was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018 and is the author of Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey (2010) and A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind (2017).[3][4][5] She is currently working on a new book, In Her Nature, about the relationship between women and the natural world.

Personal life

Hewitt was married to Pete Newbon, a lecturer in Romantic and Victorian Literature at Northumbria University in Newcastle, who died in January 2022. The couple had three daughters.[6] She is a keen runner and has been running since her mid-20s.[7]

References
  1. "Staff Profile - English Literature, Language and Linguistics - Newcastle University". www.ncl.ac.uk. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  2. "Staff Profile - English Literature, Language and Linguistics - Newcastle University". www.ncl.ac.uk. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  3. "Royal Society of Literature » Rachel Hewitt". rsliterature.org. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  4. "Rachel Hewitt". Edinburgh Festival. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  5. "Rachel Hewitt: A Revolution of Feeling review - from passions to emotions | The Arts Desk". theartsdesk.com. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  6. Frazer, Jenni (19 January 2022). "Tributes paid to academic and activist against antisemitism Pete Newbon". Jewish News. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  7. "Who runs the world?". 1843. 29 April 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2020.


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