Barbara Everett

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Barbara Everett (born 1932) is a Canadian-born British academic and literary critic, whose work has appeared frequently in the London Review of Books and The Independent . [1] In addition to her own publications, she is recognised as a leading Shakespeare scholar. [2] [3]

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Everett was born in Montreal, Canada. A graduate of St Hilda's College, Oxford, she is a retired Fellow of Somerville College. [4] She was married to the late Oxford scholar of English literature, Emrys Jones, [5] with whom she appeared in the 1996 documentary Looking for Richard . [6]

Frank Kermode described her as "a connoisseur of styles" with "a distinctive style of her own", and her 1986 book, Poets in their time as "one of the finest collections of criticism for years". [7]

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References

  1. "BOOK REVIEW / Deadly secrets of a busman's honeymoon: Barbara Everett on a new life of Dorothy L Sayers". The Independent. 2 April 1993. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  2. Dobson, Michael (2015). The Oxford companion to Shakespeare. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. p. xii. ISBN   9780198708735.
  3. Muir, Kenneth (1977). Shakespeare survey : an annual survey of Shakespearian study and production. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 6. ISBN   9780521523684.
  4. Everett, Barbara (21 June 1984). "Somebody reading". London Review of Books. 06 (11). Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  5. "Obituary of Emrys Jones". The Times.
  6. Burnett, Mark (2000). Shakespeare, film, fin-de-siècle. Basingstoke New York: Macmillan St. Martins. p. 66. ISBN   9780230286795.
  7. 1 2 Frank Kermode (22 January 1987). "Everett's English poets". London Review of Books. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
  8. Barbara Everett (1964). Auden. Oliver and Boyd.
  9. Poets in their time. Oxford University Press. 23 January 1992. ISBN   978-0-19-811281-5 . Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  10. "Barbara Everett". London Review of Books. Retrieved 20 November 2010.