Under the somewhat racy sub-title ‘British Women Embraced in the North’, I had the chance of presenting HERA TTT to an appreciative audience of scholars at the conference Norden/The North: Anglo-Nordic Exchanges 1700-1850, St Mary’s University, London, 28-29 November. I could not deliver on the implied raciness, however, since the embraces I talked of were merely metaphorical. My audience hid their disappointment well, and responded very encouragingly to my double errand. First, to show which British women of The Romantic Period were received in Norway around 1850. And second, to explain our efforts, in the COST and HERA projects, to document in our database women’s participation in the literary field. I also took the opportunity to present Women Writers as an open network that welcomes contributions from interested scholars. The Anglo-Nordic context was highly relevant; the conference was arranged by The School of Arts and Humanities at St Mary’s, in conjunction with the Nordic Association for Romantic Studies, and supported by the Danish Embassy in London, and by the Anglo-Swedish Literary Foundation. The historical emphasis was also convenient: the Romantic Period coincides with our first time window, and my paper focused on the connections between the first and the second time windows. The two days of the conference were packed with a rich collection of papers on cultural exchanges between Britain and the North, including Canada and Greenland. I particularly noted interest from British, German and Danish scholars, the latter noticing the scarcity of Danish reception in our database so far. New connections were established, and new possibilities for cooperation and publication presented themselves. And all in the opulent setting of Horace Walpole’s Gothic castle Strawberry Hill.