Thanks for the recommendations, fsloth.
For anyone interested in this, I found a couple of excerpts of Caroline Alexander's Iliad translation[0] that were published in The Guardian as well as an article by Emily Wilson (the Odyssey translator also mentioned above) about the engagement of female scholars and translators with the classics[1].
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/09/new-translatio...
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/07/women-classics...