Hermione Lee

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Dame Hermione Lee DBE (born February 29, 1948 in Winchester , England ) is an English author, biographer , critic and literary scholar . Until 2008 she was Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford . Lee was best known for her extensive biography of the writer Virginia Woolf .

life and work

Hermione Lee grew up in London. In 1968 she graduated with a Master of Arts (MA) at St Hilda's College , and in 1970 with the Master of Philosophy (MPhil) at St Cross College of the University of Oxford . She began her academic career in 1970 with a teaching position in Williamsburg , Virginia . From 1971 to 1977 she lectured at the University of Liverpool . From 1977 she taught at the University of York , where she lectured and professor of English literature for twenty years. In 1998 she was appointed to the Goldsmiths Chair in English Literature and was a Fellow at New College, Oxford University.

In 1977 she published her first book The Novels of Virginia Woolf . Critical studies of Elizabeth Bowen and Philip Roth followed . Her profound Virginia Woolf biography won the 1997 British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for English Literature. In 2003 she was awarded the Order of the Companions of Honor (CH) for literary studies. In 2006 she was Chair of the Booker Prize Committee . In 2007 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of York . She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature , the British Academy, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . From 2008 to 2017, Dame Hermione Lee was President of Wolfson College , Oxford.

In addition to biographical works, the author deals with women's literature as well as narrative literature of the 19th and 20th centuries and the writing of post-colonialism . In 2007 her biography about Edith Wharton was published and in 2013 that about Penelope Fitzgerald .

Lee is married to University of Leeds Professor Emeritus of English Literature , John Barnard.

Honors

Works

  • The Novels of Virginia Woolf (1977)
  • Elizabeth Bowen: An Estimation (1981)
  • Philip Roth (1982)
  • Willa Cather: Double Lives (1989)
  • Virginia Woolf (1996)
  • Body Parts (2002)
  • Edith Wharton (2007) Vintage, 2008 reprint, ISBN 978-0-09-976351-2 .
  • Penelope Fitzgerald. A life. Chatto & Windus, London 2013, ISBN 978-0-7011-8495-7

German-language publications

  • Virginia Woolf . Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1999. As paperback 2006: ISBN 3-596-17374-4 .
  • Elisabeth Bowen. Portrait of a writer . Schöffling, Frankfurt a. M. 2001, ISBN 3-89561-607-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Wolfson College , wolfson.ox.ac.uk, and own website, accessed December 17, 2018.
  2. ^ President-elect , Wolfson College.
  3. Authors join book prize's hall of fame. University of Edinburgh, 2014, accessed May 3, 2020 .
  4. 2015 Plutarch Award Presented To Hermione Lee's Penelope Fitzgerald. June 8, 2015, accessed May 3, 2020 .