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Hermione Lee

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Born: February 28 1948

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Hermione Lee grew up in London and was educated at Oxford. She began her academic career as a lecturer at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va and at Liverpool University . She taught at the University of York from 1977, where over twenty years she was Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, and Professor of English Literature. From 1998-2008 she was the Goldsmiths' Chair of English Literature and Fellow of New College at the University of Oxford. In 2008 Lee was elected President of Wolfson College, University of Oxford.

Lee is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's and St Cross Colleges, Oxford. She has Honorary Doctorates from Liverpool and York Universities. In 2003 she was made a Commander of the British Empire for Services to Literature.

Hermione Lee

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Born: February 28 1948

Website: Go to Website

Hermione Lee grew up in London and was educated at Oxford. She began her academic career as a lecturer at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va and at Liverpool University . She taught at the University of York from 1977, where over twenty years she was Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, and Professor of English Literature. From 1998-2008 she was the Goldsmiths' Chair of English Literature and Fellow of New College at the University of Oxford. In 2008 Lee was elected President of Wolfson College, University of Oxford.

Lee is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's and St Cross Colleges, Oxford. She has Honorary Doctorates from Liverpool and York Universities. In 2003 she was made a Commander of the British Empire for Services to Literature.

Books from Hermione Lee

Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life

Biography: A Very Short Introduction

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On Being Ill with Notes from Sick Rooms

Selected Letters

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Virginia Woolf's Nose: Essays on Biography

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Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up

Body Parts: Essays on Life-Writing

Lives of Houses

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Hyde Park Gate News: The Stephen Family Newspaper

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Four Novels of the 1920s: The Glimpses of the Moon / A Son at the Front / Twilight Sleep / The Children

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Personal Impressions

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The Mulberry Tree: Writings of Elizabeth Bowen

Philip Roth at 80

Philip Roth at 80: A Celebration: (Remarks delivered on the occasion of Philip Roth's 80th birthday) (The Library of America)

Reading In Bed

Ethan Frome, Summer, Bunner Sisters

Sapphira and the Slave Girl

Fragments of a Random Mind: A Poetry Collection

The Dark Side

The Hogarth Letters