Kathryn Hughes Explained

Kathryn Hughes
Birth Date:1 January 1959
Birth Place:UK
Nationality:British

Kathryn Hughes (born 1959) is a British academic, journalist and biographer. Educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University and the University of East Anglia (UEA);[1] her doctorate in Victorian history[2] was developed into her first book, The Victorian Governess. She is the Director of Creative Non-Fiction at the University of East Anglia,[3] [4]

Hughes' book George Eliot: The Last Victorian was awarded the 1999 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography, and her 2005 biography of Isabella Beeton, The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton was also well-received,[5] and made the long list for the Samuel Johnson Prize.[6] (Hughes's UEA website stated that the book had made the shortlist, but this turned out not to be true). Reviewing Mrs Beeton in the UK daily newspaper The Independent, Frances Spalding wrote: "There is seemingly no aspect of Victorian life that Kathryn Hughes cannot assimilate and understand from the inside. This is living history, in which massive research and impeccable scholarship is handled with invigorating panache".[7]

Hughes has also reviewed and written for The Guardian, The Economist and The Times Literary Supplement.[2] An occasional presenter of Open Book on BBC Radio 4, she also contributes to the same network's Saturday Review.[8] [9] [10] She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Literature.[11]

Bibliography

Books

Critical studies and reviews of Hughes' work

Victorians undone

Notes and References

  1. http://www1.uea.ac.uk/portal/home/schools/hum/llt/People2/Academic/1.50971 Academic page
  2. https://www.theguardian.com/global/2007/jun/03/kathrynhughes The Guardian
  3. Web site: Kathryn Hughes on biography. IdeasTap. Lauren Razavi. 16 December 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151222093409/http://www.ideastap.com/ideasmag/the-knowledge/kathryn-hughes-how-to-write-biography. 22 December 2015. dead.
  4. Web site: Professor Kathryn Hughes . University of East Anglia. 16 December 2015.
  5. News: Humble . Nicola . First catch your cook . 15 October 2005. . London. 20 February 2016 .
  6. Web site: Press Release: BBC Four: Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2006 longlist . . 27 March 2006. . 20 February 2016 .
  7. News: Spalding . Frances . The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton, By Kathryn Hughes: The cook, the beef, the life and the mother . 27 October 2005. . London. 20 February 2016 .
  8. Web site: Saturday Review: Uncle Vanya, Triple 9, The Night Manager, Mend the Living, Delacroix . . . 20 February 2016.
  9. Web site: Saturday Review: Hamlet, Sensorium, 45 Years, Les Murray, Ascent of Woman. . . 20 February 2016.
  10. Web site: Saturday Review: Upstream Colour; The Story of the Jews on BBC 2; new Margaret Atwood book Maddaddam . . . 20 February 2016.
  11. Web site: The Royal Society of Literature: Current RSL Fellows . Royal Society of Literature. 20 February 2016 .

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