Dame Gillian Beer, DBE (b. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. 27 January 1935, Surrey, England) is a British literary critic. Events 98 - Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva. Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Literary criticism is the study discussion evaluation and interpretation of Literature.
Born Gillian Patricia Kempster Burley, Beer studied English Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford. The term English literature refers to Literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by Writers not necessarily from St Anne's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. She was a fellow of Girton College, Cambridge, for 30 years. Girton College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. She was later King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge, and later President of Clare Hall. The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the President is a Title leaders of Organizations companies, Trade unions universities, and countries. Clare Hall is a College for Advanced Study (admitting only Graduate Students) in the University of Cambridge. She served as chair of the judges for the Booker Prize in 1997. The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known in short as the Booker Prize, is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length Novel Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1998. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) She is married to the literary critic John Beer; they have 3 sons. John Bernard Beer (born 1926 is a British Literary critic. He is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of
Beer's most innovative and important literary criticism lies in the field of Victorian studies. In particular, Darwin's Plots (1983), related the form of Victorian novels to Darwinist thinking. Its significance as a work was confirmed by the publication of second edition by Cambridge University Press in 2000. Cambridge University Press (known colloquially as CUP is a Publisher given a Royal Charter by Henry VIII in 1534 She has also written important collections of essays on Virginia Woolf (The Common Ground (1996), and on other aspects of the relations of literature and science.
Oxford University awarded her an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree in June 2005. The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the An honorary degree or a degree honoris causa ( Latin: 'for the sake of the honour' is an Academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding Doctor of Letters ( Latin: Litterarum doctor; DLitt; or Litt D
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Literary criticism
- Meredith: A Change of Masks (1970)
- Darwin's Plots (1983)
- George Eliot (1986)
- Arguing with the Past (1989)
- Open Fields (1996)
- Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground (1996)
Bibliography
- A full bibliography of Beer's work may be found in:
- Literature, Science, Psychoanalysis, 1830-1970 : essays in honour of Gillian Beer, ed. Mary Ann (Marian Evans ( 22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880) better known by her Pen name George Eliot, was an (Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941 was an English Novelist and Essayist, regarded as one of the foremost Helen Small and Trudi Tate (Oxford: OUP, 2003)
Reference sources
- Donald MacLeod. "Dame Gillian Beer", The Guardian (29 June, 2004). The Guardian (until 1959 The Manchester Guardian) is a British Newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group.