Iconic Women

Daisy Goodwin has worked as a TV producer and presenter on productions such as Reader I Married Him, Bookworm and The Nation’s Favourite Poems. She is also the creator of Grand Designs and the hit ITV drama Victoria, which has been sold to 134 countries. She has edited numerous poetry anthologies and is the author of the memoir Silver River as well as four novels, the most recent of which is Diva. 

Dava Sobel is the author of the international bestseller Longitude and Pulitzer Prize finalists Galileo’s Daughter, A More Perfect Heaven and The Glass Universe. She is the recipient of the Individual Public Service Award from the National Science Board, the Kumpke-Roberts Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other honours. Her latest book is The Elements of Marie Curie. 

Katrina Strickland is the editor of Good Weekend magazine, which she has helmed since June 2017. Prior to that she was editor of The Australian Financial Review Magazine and has held arts editor roles at both the AFR and The Australian. Her book Affairs of the Art, about the widows and widowers who control the estates of some of Australia’s most renowned artists, was published by Melbourne University Publishing in 2013.