Emily Brand is a writer and historian with a special interest in the long eighteenth century, especially English social history and romantic relationships c.1660-1837. She has lectured on eighteenth-century seduction and women's lives at the V&A, the National Maritime Museum and the BBC History festival among others.

Her most recent book The Fall of the House of Byron (John Murray, 2020) was selected as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week, a Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday and BBC History Magazine Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2020 Elma Dangerfield Prize.

Emily's tongue-in-cheek Mr Darcy's Guide to Courtship was a Publishers Weekly 'Pick of the Week' and featured in Stylist Magazine's '30 Books Every Woman Should Read'