Kathryn Louise Lister (born 18 October 1981) is a British academic historian, writer, journalist and blogger, principally on women's rights and the history of sexuality and sexual behaviour.
She studied English literature at Leeds Trinity University and the University of Leeds, writing her doctoral thesis on "Women Authors and the Early Nineteenth-Century Arthurian Revival".
She was a senior lecturer in the Centre for Victorian Studies at Leeds Trinity University,[3] before becoming a freelance writer.
[4] In 2016, she set up an online blog and research forum, Whores of Yore, which by 2021 had over 360,000 followers on Twitter.
[5] As well as her blog, she writes regularly for the i newspaper,[6] and has made appearances on British radio and television.