Juliet R. V. Barker (born 1958) is an English

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, specialising in the

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and literary biography. She is the

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of works on the Brontës,

William Wordsworth William Wordsworth (7 April 177023 April 1850) was an English Romantic poetry, Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romanticism, Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication ''Lyrical Balla ...

, and medieval

tournaments A tournament is a competition involving at least three competitors, all participating in a sport or game. More specifically, the term may be used in either of two overlapping senses: # One or more competitions held at a single venue and concentr ...

. From 1983 to 1989 she was the curator and librarian of the

Bronte Parsonage Museum Bronte may refer to: People ;Surname * Brontë family, an English literary family that included: ** Anne Brontë (1820–1849), novelist and poet ** Branwell Brontë (1817–1848), painter and poet ** Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855), novelist and ...

. Barker was educated at

Bradford Girls' Grammar School Bradford Girls' Grammar School is a free school for girls aged 5 – 16 and boys aged 5 – 11. Founded in 1875, the school is on the outskirts of Bradford city centre in West Yorkshire, England. Recent public examination results put the schoo ...

and

St Anne's College, Oxford St Anne's College is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It was founded in 1879 and gained full college status in 1959. Originally a women's college, it has admitted men since 1979. ...

, where she gained her

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in medieval history.

Selected works

* ''Brontës: Selected Poems'' (1978) Everyman Poetry, editor * ''The Tournament in England: 1100–1400'' (1986) Woodbridge, England:The Boydell Press, * ''The Brontë Yearbook'' (1990) editor * ''The Brontës'' (1994) * ''Charlotte Brontë: Juvenilia 1829–35'' (1996) editor * ''The Brontës: A Life in Letters'' (1997) * ''Wordsworth: A Life'' (2000) * ''Wordsworth: A Life in Letters'' (2002) * ''Agincourt: The King, the Campaign, the Battle'' (2005), UK: Little, Brown * ''The Deafening Sound of Silent Tears: The Story of Caring For Life'' (2007) * ''Conquest: The English Kingdom of France 1417-50'' (2009) London: Little, Brown * ''England Arise: The People, the King and the Great Revolt of 1381'' (2014) * ''Drops into an Ocean: Continuing the story of Caring For Life'' (2017)

Collaborations

* with Richard Barber: ''Tournaments: Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages'' (1989)The Boydell Press,

Honours and awards

In 1999 she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters by the

University of Bradford The University of Bradford is a public research university located in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. A plate glass university, it received its royal charter in 1966, making it the 40th university to be created in Britain, but ...

. She is a Fellow of the

Royal Society of Literature The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820 by King George IV to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent". A charity that represents the voice of literature in the UK, the RSL has about 800 Fellows, elect ...

. "The Brontes" won the Yorkshire Post Book Award and was short-listed for both the AT&T Non-Fiction Prize and the Marsh Biography Award.

Footnotes

External links

Juliet Barkers Official Web Page launched September 2009

Juliet Barker on Goodreads
{{DEFAULTSORT:Barker, Juliet 1958 births Living people English literary historians Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Historians of English literature English medievalists British women medievalists Alumni of St Anne's College, Oxford English military historians People educated at Bradford Girls' Grammar School British women literary historians English women historians English women curators