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Nicola Anne Lulham Bradbury (born 1951) is an English literary critic, lecturer, editor, and author, specializing in the 19th century novel.
Bradbury was born in Weston-super-Mare, the daughter of Robin J. Bradbury and Joan Lulham, who had married in 1949. She was the middle child of a family of three, with an older brother, Peter, and a younger brother, Christopher. [1] She was educated at the University of Oxford and then at McGill, with a Commonwealth Scholarship awarded in 1974. [2] Bradbury later reported that in Canada she "first encountered ‘theory’ and that stood me in good stead at later stages in my career.” [3] She graduated MA from both Oxford and McGill and is also a Doctor of Philosophy of Oxford, with a thesis entitled 'The Process and the Effect: a Study of the Developments of the Novel Form in the Later Work of Henry James'. [4]
By 1989 Bradbury was a lecturer at the University of Reading, [5] and from 1998 to 2005 was a Director of the Modern Humanities Research Association, English Editor for Modern Language Review , and editor of The Yearbook of English Studies , [6] succeeding Andrew Gurr. [7]
Much of her work has focussed on the novelists Henry James and Charles Dickens.
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