The Grandmother

Božena Němcová was a Czech writer of the final phase of the 19 century Czech National Revival movement.

Susan Reynolds has worked at the British Library for 20 years in various roles including Curator of the Czech, Slovak and Lusation Collections.

Julia teaches Czech and Russian Literature at the University of Bristol. Her monograph, Cures for Modernity (Peter Lang, 2023), examines portrayals of medicine in Czech- and Russian-language literature and cinema of the 1920s and early 1930s.