Education
She was educated at Wimbledon High School and Street Hilda"s College, Oxford.
literary critic Professor of English Literature
She was educated at Wimbledon High School and Street Hilda"s College, Oxford.
She was King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge from 1986 to 1993, and Rector of Exeter College, Oxford, from 1993 to 2004. Her published works include Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries and Jane Austen and the War of Ideas. Much of her work was devoted to the career of the Anglo-Irish Romantic novelist Maria Edgeworth, including a classic literary biography and an important edition of her collected works for Pickering & Chatto.
(This study of the Romantics--Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge...)
(It is often said that Jane Austen in the countryside rema...)