Breeze Barrington is a cultural historian specialising in the artistic cultures of the seventeenth century, with particular focus on women’s history and female artists. As an arts writer and critic, she has written for Apollo, The Art Newspaper, CNN Style, The Conversation, the Financial Times, and the Times Literary Supplement, and has appeared as a guest on podcasts including History Hack, Talking Tudors, the Colnaghi Foundation, and the TLS Podcast. She has also worked as a consultant for Working Title and Monumental Pictures.
She was awarded her PhD in 2021, and her academic writing includes articles on seventeenth-century music and visual arts for The Seventeenth Century Journal and Bloomsbury Academic. She teaches literature and visual cultures at the University of Cambridge and has previously taught seventeenth-century literature at Queen Mary, University of London and the University of East Anglia, as well as Biography/Non-Fiction on the UEA Creative Writing degree.
Breeze is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and is represented by PEW Literary Agency. Her first book, The Graces, about Maria of Modena and the community of female learning she cultivated within the Jacobite court, will be published by Bloomsbury in July 2025.
