Imogen Hermes Gowar

Imogen Hermes Gowar is a British historical novelist and a great-granddaughter of the engraver and sculptor Gertrude Hermes. She studied archaeology, anthropology and art history at the University of East Anglia, then worked in museums, including the British Museum. A Malcolm Bradbury Memorial Scholarship in 2013 took her back to UEA for a creative writing MA, where her dissertation grew into her first novel, The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock (2018). It received a Betty Trask Award in 2019 and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She later began a novel about Lady Eleanor Talbot.

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