Caroline Chapman worked as a picture researcher for many of the principal UK publishers before becoming an editor and an author. Her publications include Russell of the Times: War Dispatches and Diaries, Elizabeth & Georgiana: The Duke of Devonshire & his Two Duchesses, John and Joséphine: The Creation of The Bowes Museum, Eighteenth-Century Women Artists: Their Trials and Tribulations, Nineteenth-Century Women Artists: Sisters of the Brush.