Career
As a literary critic and book reviewer Harman has written for the Times Literary Supplement, Literary Review, Evening Standard, the Sunday Telegraph and other publications. Harman is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has taught English at the Universities of Oxford and Manchester. She has also taught creative writing at Columbia University.
Her subsequent biographical subjects include Fanny Burney and Robert Louis Stevenson.
In 2009 Harman published Jane"s Fame, a book about the posthumous fame of novelist Jane Austen.