Barbara Hardy
Professor Barbara Hardy FRSL FBA |
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Born | Barbara Nathan 27 June 1924 Swansea, Wales |
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Alma mater | University College London |
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Discipline | English literature |
Sub discipline | Literature of the 19th century George Eliot Jane Austen Charles Dickens Thomas Hardy |
Institutions | Royal Holloway, University of London Birkbeck College, University of London |
Barbara Hardy, FRSL, FBA, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , (née Nathan; 27 June 1924 – 12 February 2016) was a British literary scholar, author, and poet. As an academic, she specialised in the literature of the 19th Century.[1][2] From 1965 to 1970, she was Professor of English at Royal Holloway College, University of London. Then, from 1970 to 1989, she was Professor of English Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London.[3][4]
Early life and education
Hardy was born on 27 June 1924 in Swansea, Wales.[1][3] She was educated at Swansea High School for Girls, a grammar school.[1] In February 1941, she experienced the Swansea Blitz.[3] She studied at University College London, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1947 and a Master of Arts (MA) degree in 1949.[1]
Honours
In 1962, Hardy was awarded the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize by the British Academy for her monograph The Novels of George Elliot.[5] In 1997, she was awarded the Sagittarius Prize by the Society of Authors for her novel London Lovers.[6] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) in 1997,[7] and a Senior Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2006.[2]
Selected works
- Academic
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- Personal
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References
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- 1924 births
- 2016 deaths
- British literary historians
- English literature academics
- British women writers
- 20th-century British poets
- 20th-century British novelists
- Academics of Royal Holloway, University of London
- Academics of Birkbeck, University of London
- Fellows of the British Academy
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
- People from Swansea
- Alumni of University College London
- 20th-century women writers