Isobel Armstrong

Isobel Armstrong FBA (born 1937) is a British academic. She is Emeritus Professor of English at Birkbeck, University of London and a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of English Studies at the University of London. She is a Fellow of the British Academy.^[1]

She is a critic of nineteenth-century poetry, literature and women's writing. Her publications include The Radical Aesthetic (2000), Women's Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre (1999) and Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Politics and Poetics (1993). She is also a published poet.

Armstrong is the younger sister of writer Diana Wynne Jones.^[2]

References

1. "Fellows Directory: A". British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
2. Craig, Amanda (March 2005). "Diana Wynne Jones interview". Retrieved 28 April 2013.

External links

• Description at ncse website
• Works by or about Isobel Armstrong in libraries (WorldCat catalog)