Juliet Barker
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Juliet R. V. Barker FRSL (born 1958) is a British
United Kingdom
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 historian
Historian
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, specialising in the Middle Ages
Middle Ages
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 and literary biography. She is the author
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 of a number of well-regarded works on the Brontë
Brontë
The Brontës were a nineteenth-century literary family associated with Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte , Emily , and Anne , are well-known as poets and novelists...

s, William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads....

, and medieval tournaments
Tournament (medieval)
A tournament, or tourney is the name popularly given to chivalrous competitions or mock fights of the Middle Ages and Renaissance . It is one of various types of hastiludes....

. From 1983 to 1989 she was the curator and librarian of the Bronte Parsonage Museum
Brontë Parsonage Museum
The Brontë Parsonage Museum is maintained by the Brontë Society in honour of the famed Brontë sisters – Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë – in their old home located in Haworth, West Yorkshire, an area of England covered in much open, expansive moorland...

.

Barker was educated at Bradford Girls' Grammar School
Bradford Girls' Grammar School
Founded in 1857, Bradford Girls' Grammar School is an independent senior school for girls aged 11 – 18 with co-educational preparatory school and nursery, called Lady Royd Preparatory School for boys and girls aged 2 – 11 years....

 and St Anne's College, Oxford, where she gained her doctorate
Doctorate
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 in medieval history. .

A biography and summary of each book can be found on her official website, which was launched September 2009.

Selected works

  • The Brontës: Selected Poems
  • (1986) The Tournament in England: 1100-1400, Woodbridge, England: The Boydell Press
    Boydell & Brewer
    Boydell & Brewer is an academic press based in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England that specializes in publishing historical and critical works. In addition to British and general history, the company publishes three series devoted to studies, editions, and translations of material related to the...

     ISBN 0851159427
  • The Brontë Yearbook
  • The Brontës
  • The Brontës: A Life in Letters
  • Charlotte Brontë: Juvenilia 1829-35
  • Wordsworth: A Life
  • Wordsworth: A Life in Letters
  • (2005) Agincourt: The King, the Campaign, the Battle, UK: Little, Brown ISBN 034911918X
  • (2007) The Deafening Sound of Silent Tears: The Story of Caring For Life

Collaborations

  • (1989) with Richard Barber
    Richard Barber
    Richard William Barber FRSL FSA FRHistS is a British historian who has been writing and publishing in the field of medieval history and literature ever since his student days. He has specialised in Arthurian legend, beginning with a general survey, Arthur of Albion which is still in print in a...

    : Tournaments: Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages The Boydell Press. ISBN 0851154700

Honours and awards

In 1999 she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Bradford
University of Bradford
The University of Bradford is a British university located in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The University received its Royal Charter in 1966, making it the 40th University to be created in Britain, but its origins date back to the early 1800s...

. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
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