Maddie has taught in various schools and colleges and written numerous books and articles, mostly on the works of Chaucer, Shakespeare & Dickens. She lives in East Anglia and is a keen musician, photographer and poet. She publishes under various names and is currently working on a novel exploring what she sees as the cynical betrayal, by successive Tory and Labour governments, of the promise of the Welfare State to address and redress social disadvantage and injustice in Britain's Two Nations.