Professor Barbara Caine is the head of the School of Historical Studies at Monash University where she co-ordinates a Masters program in Biography and Life. Her publications include Destined to be Wives: The Sisters of Beatrice Webb (1986) and Bombay to Bloomsbury: The Stracheys, c 1850-1950 (2005). She is currently completing a manuscript, Biography and History.

Background reading: ‘A Feminist Family: The Stracheys and Feminism c.1860-1950', Women's History Review, vol 14, no 3-4, 2005, pp 385-404