Jaina Hunt is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Portsmouth, specialising in early modern women’s history with a particular focus on beauty culture in Tudor England. Her doctoral thesis, Pretty and Privileged: Never-married Women, Beauty and Agency in Tudor England, explores the complex relationship between beauty culture, female agency, and patriarchy. Drawing on medical texts, printed literature, letters, and visual sources, her research investigates how ideals of beauty shaped the lives and perceptions of never-married women, and how these women navigated cultural expectations surrounding appearance, morality, and adornment. Her work contributes to interdisciplinary scholarship on gender, material culture, and the history of cosmetics by applying modern theories of pretty privilege to a historical context.