Rachel Hewitt 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). Her writing, so far, has charted the subjective effects of periods of turbulence and transition in history; particularly the effects of late-eighteenth-century geopolitical change on humans’ emotions and on their responses to British landscape. In September 2018 she will become Lecturer in Creative Writing (Prose) at Newcastle University, where she will also help to lead the Newcastle Centre for Literary Arts.
Fellows are nominated by peers and elected by our Council of writers – our governing Board. Being elected a Fellow of the RSL is a lifetime honour. This role gives them the opportunity to support other writers, readers and the future of literature. The RSL connects writers in the Fellowship to one another, and to a wider readership.
