Juliet Barker
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| Juliet Barker | |
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| Born | 1958 |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Nationality | British |
| Subjects | William Wordsworth Brontës Medieval warfare Medieval tournaments |
Juliet R. V. Barker (born 1958) is a British historian, specialising in the Middle Ages and literary biography. She is the author of a number of well-regarded works on the Brontës, William Wordsworth, and medieval tournaments. From 1983 to 1989 she was the curator and librarian of the Bronte Parsonage Museum.[1]
Barker was educated at Bradford Girls' Grammar School and St Anne's College, Oxford, where she gained her doctorate in medieval history.[1] In 1999 she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Bradford. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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[edit] Selected works
- The Brontës: Selected Poems
- (1986) The Tournament in England: 1100-1400, Woodbridge, England: The Boydell Press ISBN 0851159427
- The Brontë Yearbook
- The Brontës
- The Brontës: A Life in Letters
- Charlotte Brontë: Juvenilia 1829-35
- Wordsworth: A Life
- Wordsworth: A Life in Letters
- (2005) Agincourt: The King, the Campaign, the Battle, UK: Little, Brown ISBN 034911918X
- (2007) The Deafening Sound of Silent Tears: The Story of Caring For Life
[edit] Collaborations
- (1989) with Richard Barber: Tournaments: Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages The Boydell Press. ISBN 0851154700
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ a b "Juliet Barker biography". Andrew Lownie literary agency. 2006. http://www.andrewlownie.co.uk/books/barker.juliet/index.shtml. Retrieved on 2008-07-03.
[edit] External links
- Works by or about Juliet Barker in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
