Antonia Saunders studied for both her BA and MA at The Open University. Her primary interest is in the novel in all its forms with a particular concentration on the nineteenth and early twentieth century. She began her part time PhD at the OU in October 2020. The working title of her thesis is 'The construction of a Jewish Identity in histories and novels of the nineteenth century' which considers the literary and historiographical contexts of representations of Jewish people and Jewish Identity.