Juliet Barker

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Juliet Barker

Born 1958
Occupation Historian
Nationality British
Subjects William Wordsworth
Brontës
Medieval warfare
Medieval tournaments

Juliet R. V. Barker (born 1958) is a British historian, specialising in the Middle Ages and literary biography. She is the author of a number of well-regarded works on the Brontës, William Wordsworth, and Medieval tournaments.

Barker was educated at Bradford Girls' Grammar School and St Anne's College, Oxford. In 1999, she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Bradford. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

[edit] Selected works

  • The Brontës: Selected Poems
  • (1986) The Tournament in England: 1100-1400, UK: The Boydell Press ISBN 0851159427
  • The Brontë Yearbook
  • The Brontës
  • The Brontës: A Life in Letters
  • Charlotte Brontë: Juvenilia 1829-35
  • Wordsworth: A Life
  • Wordsworth: A Life in Letters
  • (2005) Agincourt: The King, the Campaign, the Battle, UK: Little, Brown ISBN 034911918X

[edit] Collaborations

  • with Richard Barber: Tournaments: Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages

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