Katherine Duncan-Jones

Katherine Dorothea Duncan-Jones FRSL (born May 13, 1941 ) is an English literary scholar and Shakespeare scholar.

Duncan-Jones is the daughter of the British philosopher Austin Ernest Duncan-Jones and the literary scholar Elsie Elizabeth Duncan-Jones. She attended the King Edward VI. High school for girls in Birmingham and studied at St Hilda's College , Oxford. She was married to the British journalist Andrew Norman Wilson. Her daughter, Emily Wilson, is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania . Duncan Jones was from 1998 to 2001 Professor of English literature at Somerville College of the University of Oxford . She is a member of the Malone Society , was a 1998 Fellow of the Folger Shakespeare Library and has been a member of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust since 2000 . She has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 1991 . She is currently an Honorary Professor of English Literature at University College London .

In addition to her preoccupation with Shakespeare, she has also worked with contemporary writers from the English Renaissance. In 1991 she published a biography of Philip Sidney .

Works

• Shakespeare. An ungentle life. London 2010, ISBN 978-1-4081-2508-3 .

Web links

• Katherine Duncan-Jones in Debretts
• Katherine Duncan-Jones Oxford University
• Literature by and about Katherine Duncan-Jones in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)

Individual evidence

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