With a first degree in archaeology and a PhD in English, Anne was a senior lecturer in Art and Design History at Southampton Solent University for 14 year. She has curated four national exhibitions, including Ancient Landscape, Pastoral Visions: Samuel Palmer to the Ruralists(2008), The Truth About Faeries (2009-11), Under the Greenwood: Picturing the British Tree (2013) and Beyond the Brotherhood The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy (2019-20). Her book on The Perseus Series accompanied the Edward Burne-Jones exhibition (2018, Tate Britain).  Anne has also published over a hundred academic papers.  She has held several prestigious fellowships including Fellow of the Huntington Library, CA (2008-09 and 2018-19) and Fellow of the Henry Francis DuPont Winterthur Library and Museum (2009/10). Currently a guide and lecturer, Anne specialises in Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts art tours. Her career as an international speaker has taken her all over the world, including Jersey, Spain, Germany, New Zealand, Canada and the USA.  She undertook her sixth lecture tour for ADFAS/ArtsNational Australia in 2024. 

Awards, Qualifications & Memberships: 

Research Society Victorian periodicals, Curran Fellowship Research Grant, 2021
Robert R. Wark Fellow, Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, CA, 2018-2019. 
Last Fellow of American Material Culture, American Antiquarian Society Fellowship 2014/15
Fellow of the Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum and Library, Delaware Fellowship, 2009-10. 
Cumming Ceramics Research Scholarship 2007 and 2010 for projects relating to 19th century ceramics.
Fletcher Jones Fellow of the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens CA, 2008-09.
Fellow Society of Antiquaries since 1994
Exeter University 1998-2001 Ph.D. Humanities, Exeter University, 2001