Robina Williams is an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 author.

Williams lives in Liverpool. She has an Honours degree in Modern Languages from Oxford University and a Master of Philosophy research degree in English Literature from Liverpool University. Her research thesis was on the links between Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. He was very popular during the Victorian era and wrote 30 novels, more than 60 short stories, 14 plays, and over 100 non-fiction pieces...

 and nineteenth-century art. She enjoys looking at paintings and the plot of Jerome and the Seraph is arranged around a painting by Sir John Roddam Spencer Stanhope

John Roddam Spencer Stanhope

John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope is an English artist associated with Edward Burne-Jones and George Frederic Watts and often regarded as a second-wave pre-Raphaelite. His work is also studied within the context of Aestheticism and British Symbolism. As a painter, Stanhope worked in oil, watercolor,...

 called "Thoughts of the Past".

Williams has been a schoolteacher, college lecturer, journalist and secretary.

Fiction

• Jerome and the Seraph (2004)
• Angelos (2006)

External links

• Robina Williams, author
• author interview