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Appointments: 1951-65 Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer, Birkbeck College, University of London 1965-70 Professor of English, Royal Holloway College, University of London 1970-87 Professor of English, Birkbeck College, University of London 1987-Professor Emeritus, University of London (together with innumerable visiting appointments, notably at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1969-70)
Distinctions: 1962 British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for The Novels of George Eliot 1981 Honorary Doctorate, Open University 1982 Fellow of the Welsh Academy 1987-88 President, Dickens Society 1990-91 Director, Yeats Summer School 1991-Vice-President, Thomas Hardy Society 1991 Honorary Professor of English, University College Swansea 1997 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 2006 Fellow of the British Academy
Family: Married to Ernest Dawson Hardy (dec. 1977); two daughters, three grandchildren
