Rosemary Lancaster, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Western Australia, Chevalier des Palmes académiques, is the author of Je Suis Australienne, Remarkable Women in France, 1880-1945 (2008) and Poetic Illumination: René Char and his Artist Allies (2010).

In Women Writing on the French Riviera Rosemary Lancaster examines the varied literary and artistic works of nine women visitors and their unique contributions to the cultural identity of the Riviera in its seminal rise to fame.