Vivien Noakes

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Vivien Mary Noakes (born on 16th February 1937 in Twickenham as Vivien Langley , died on 17th February 2011 ) was an English literature scholar, particularly with work on Edward Lear and Isaac Rosenberg emerged.

life and work

Noake's father, Marcus Langley , made a career as an aircraft engineer with De Havilland and British Aircraft Manufacturing in the pre-war period . She attended Dunottar School for girls in Reigate, Suffolk, and then trained as a nurse at London's St Thomas' Hospital . In 1960 she married the portrait painter Michael Noakes ; the marriage had three children. Around 1965 she began work on a biography of Edward Lear (1812-1888), which appeared in 1968 under the title Edward Lear: The Life of a Wanderer and Noakes' reputation as an expert for this (alongside Lewis Carroll ) outstanding representative of the Victorian Nonsense literature established. In 1985 she curated an exhibition on Lear's work for the Royal Academy of Arts together with Charles Nugent , edited a selection of his letters for Oxford University Press , published a monograph on his painterly work in 1991, and published The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense in 2001 , published by Penguin , presents today's authoritative critical edition of Lear's poems and cartoons.

Only after the age of fifty did she begin university studies at the University of Oxford ( Somerville College ), where she received her doctorate in 1992 with a thesis on Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918), whose poems, along with those of Wilfred Owens and Rupert Brookes, were among the most important lyric testimonies to the World War I experience in English literature count. In later years she edited two editions of Rosenberg's works for Oxford University Press (2004, 2008) and in 2005 also published Voices of Silence, an anthology with works by now largely forgotten poets of the First World War. In 1996 she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature , she was also a member of the English PEN , the Society of Authors and the Oxford First World War Poetry Steering Committee. She died of cancer on February 17, 2011 at the age of 74.

Publications

  • Edward Lear: The Life of a Wanderer . Collins, London 1968. (4th, revised and expanded edition: Sutton, Stroud 2004, ISBN 0-7509-3743-2 )
  • Edward Lear, 1812-1888: The Catalog of the Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1985, ISBN 0-297-78635-0 .
  • as editor: Edward Lear: Selected Letters . Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 1988, ISBN 0-19-818601-0 .
  • The Painter Edward Lear . David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1991, ISBN 0-7153-9778-8 .
  • with Michael Noakes: The Daily Life of the Queen: An Artist's Diary . Ebury Press, London 2000, ISBN 0-09-186982-X .
  • as editor: Edward Lear: The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense . Penguin, London 2001 (all later editions published under the title The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse , ISBN 0-14-042465-2 )
  • as editor: The Poems and Plays of Isaac Rosenberg: A Critical Edition . Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 2004, ISBN 0-19-156856-2 .
  • as editor: Voices of Silence: The Alternative Book of First World War Poetry . Sutton, Stroud 2006, ISBN 0-7509-4521-4 .
  • as editor: Isaac Rosenberg . Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-955340-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Noakes, Vivien
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Noakes, Vivien Mary (full name); Langley, Vivien (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Twickenham , London
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 2011