Isobel Armstrong

Isobel Armstrong FBA (born 1937) is a British academic. She is Emeritus Professor of English at Birkbeck, University of London and a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of English Studies at the University of London. She is a Fellow of the British Academy.[1]

She is a critic of nineteenth-century poetry, literature and women's writing. Her publications include The Radical Aesthetic (2000), Women's Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre (1999) and Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Politics and Poetics (1993). She is also a published poet.

Armstrong is the younger sister of writer Diana Wynne Jones.[2]

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  1. "Fellows Directory: A". British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  2. Craig, Amanda (March 2005). "Diana Wynne Jones interview". Retrieved April 28, 2013.


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