Hermione Lee

Hermione Lee ( * February 29, 1948 in Winchester, England) is an English author, biographer, critic and literary scholar. She is a 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, Oxford. Her academic career began in 1970 as a lecturer in Williamsburg, Virginia. From 1971-77 she lectured at the University of Liverpool. From 1977 she taught at the University of York, where she held lectures twenty years as a lecturer and professor of English literature. In 1998 she was appointed to the Goldsmiths Department of English Literature and a Fellow of New College, Oxford University.

In 1977 she published her first book, The Novels of Virginia Woolf. This was followed by critical studies of Elizabeth Bowen and Philip Roth. Your profound Virginia Woolf 's biography won the 1997 British Academy 's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for English literature. In 2003, she was honored with the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) for literature. In 2006, she was chairman of the committee of the Booker Prize. 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.

In addition to biographical works, the author of women's fiction and narrative literature of the 19th and 20th century and the writing of post-colonialism is concerned. In 2007 they released their biography of Edith Wharton in the UK.

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 edition, ISBN 978-0-09-976351-2.
  • Penelope Fitzgerald. A Life. Chatto 2013

German -language publications

  • Virginia Woolf. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt aM 1999 as paperback 2006. ISBN 3-596-17374-4.
  • Elizabeth Bowen. Portrait of a writer. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-89561-607-9.
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