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Virginia Woolf

Hermione Lee grew up in London, and spent her childhood close to the streets, parks and buildings of Virginia Woolf's life and novels. After leaving Oxford, and lecturing for a year in America, she taught at the Universities of Liverpool and York, where she is now Professor of English Literature. She is also well known as a writer, reviewer and broadcaster. From 1982 to 1986 she presented Channel Four's first books programme, 'Book Four'. Her previous publications include a critical study of the novels of Virginia Woolf, a book on the writing of Elizabeth Bowen and a collection of Bowen's non-fiction, editions of Stevie Smith, Willa Cather and Woolf, and a popular anthology of short stories by women writers, The Secret Self, reissued and enlarged in 1995. Her 1989 critical biography, Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up, was enthusiastically received. Virginia Woolf won the 1997 British Academy Rose Mary Crawshaw Award. She is married, and lives in Yorkshire.

Издательство: "Vintage" (2009)

Формат: 130x200, 936 стр.

ISBN: 978-0-099-73251-8

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Hermione Lee

Hermione Lee, CBE (b. February 29, 1948) [Day of birth from "Hermione Lee" in "Contemporary Authors Online", Gale, entry update July 17, 2003] is President Elect of Wolfson College, Oxford and was lately Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature in the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow of New College. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature.

Biography

Hermione Lee grew up in London where her father was a GP. She was educated at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle, City of London School for Girls, and Queen's College, London. She took a first-class degree in English Literature at St Hilda's College, Oxford in 1968 and an MPhil at St Cross College, Oxford in 1970. She has taught at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, at the University of Liverpool (where she was given an Honorary DLitt in 2002) and at the University of York, from 1977 to 1998, where she had a personal Chair in the Department of English and Related Literature, and where she received an Honorary DLitt in 2007. Since 1998 she has been the Goldsmiths Professor of English Literature and the first woman professorial Fellow of New College.

Membership

She is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's and St Cross College, Oxford, and a member of the Athenaeum Club. In 2003 she was appointed a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to literature and became a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In the USA, she has been a visiting teaching fellow at the Beinecke Library at Yale University, a Whitney J. Oates Fellow at the Council for the Humanities at Princeton, an Everett Helm visiting fellow at the Lilly Library at the University of Indiana at Bloomington, and the Mel and Lois Tukman Fellow of the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers in 2004-5.

Writing

Hermione Lee has written widely on women writers, American literature, life-writing, and modern fiction. Her books include "The Novels of Virginia Woolf" (1977), a study of the Anglo-Irish novelist "Elizabeth Bowen" (1981, revised 1999), a short critical book, the first published in Britain, on "Philip Roth" (1982), a critical biography of the American novelist Willa Cather, "Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up" (1989, reissued in a revised edition by Virago in 2008), and a major biography of Virginia Woolf (1996), which won the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay prize and was named as one of the New York Times Book Review's best books of 1997. She has also published a collection of essays on biography and autobiography, "Body Parts: Essays on Life-Writing" (2005), and a biography of "Edith Wharton", published to considerable acclaim in 2007 by Chatto & Windus and Knopf. She has edited and introduced numerous editions and anthologies, of Kipling, Trollope, Virginia Woolf, Stevie Smith, Elizabeth Bowen, Willa Cather, Eudora Welty, and Penelope Fitzgerald. She was one of the co-editors of the Oxford Poets Anthologies from 1999 to 2002.

Hermione Lee is also well-known for her reviewing, most recently in The Guardian, and her work in the media. From 1982 to 1986 she presented Channel Four's first books programme, Book Four, and she contributes regularly to Front Row and other radio arts programmes. She was Chair of the Judges for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2006, and has judged many other literary prizes. She has served on the literature advisory panels of the Arts Council and the British Council.

Personal life

She is married to Professor John Barnard, Professor Emeritus of the University of Leeds.

Partial bibliography

*"The Novels of Virginia Woolf" (1977)
*"Elizabeth Bowen: An Estimation" (1981)
*"Philip Roth" (1982)
*"Willa Cather: Double Lives" (1989)
*"Virginia Woolf" (1997)
*"Body Parts" (2002)
*"Edith Wharton" (2007)

References

External links

*Hermione Lee Website: [http://www.hermionelee.com www.hermionelee.com]

*Wolfson Presidency: [http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/newpresident/]

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