The Ballad of Isabel Winslow

The Ballad of Isabel Winslow began with a question: What if a woman in 18th-century Britain refused every role society wrote for her—and rewrote her own instead? I was drawn to the contradiction of Isabel’s world: the beauty and elegance of aristocratic life contrasted with its hypocrisy and rot. I wanted to create a character who uses wit as a weapon, humor as survival, and charm as rebellion. The story is personal to me—it's about performance, ambition, and the cost of becoming who you are in a world that doesn’t expect anything from you except obedience.