Rosemary Ashton
Rosemary Doreen Ashton, OBE, FBA (née Thomson; born 11 April 1947) is a British literary scholar. From 2002 to 2012, she was the Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London.[1][2][3] Her reviews appear in the London Review of Books.[4]
Honours
In the 1999 New Year Honours, Ashton was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) "for services to comparative literature".[5] In 2000, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[6]
Works
- Little Germany: exile and asylum in Victorian England, Oxford University Press, 1986, ISBN 9780192122391
- G.H. Lewes: An Unconventional Victorian, Pimlico, 1991, ISBN 9780712666893
- George Eliot: a life, Penguin Books, 1996, ISBN 9780140242911
- 142 Strand: A Radical Address in Victorian London, Random House UK, 2006, ISBN 9780701173708
- Victorian Bloomsbury, Yale University Press, 2012, ISBN 9780300154481[7][8]
References
- ↑ "Rosemary Ashton". City Centre. University College London. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
- ↑ "Rosemary Doreen Ashton". Debrett's. Debrett's. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
- ↑ "ASHTON, Prof. Rosemary Doreen". Who's Who 2017. Oxford University Press. November 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
- ↑ "Rosemary Ashton In the LRB Archive". London Review of Books. LRB Limited. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
- ↑ "No. 55354". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1998. p. 9.
- ↑ "Professor Rosemary Ashton". British Academy. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
- ↑ Hughes, Kathryn (14 December 2012). "Victorian Bloomsbury by Rosemary Ashton – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
In her absorbing book, researched from the ground up, Rosemary Ashton maps out a cultural history of Bloomsbury in the 19th century.
- ↑ Flanders, Judith (19 September 2012). "Victorian Bloomsbury by Rosemary Ashton: review". The Telegraph. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
That Ashton has managed to tame “Bloomsbury”, and present it in such a coherent, digestible fashion, is triumph indeed.
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