Barbara Hardy is professor emeritus in the University of London, Birkbeck, and honorary professor in the University of Wales, Swansea. Among her many books are The Novels of George Eliot (1959), The Appropriate Form (1964), The Moral Art of Dickens (1970), A Reading of Jane Austen (1975), Particularities: Readings in George Eliot (1982), Charles Dickens: A Writers and their Work Special (1985), Forms of Feeling in Victorian Fiction (1985). She is working on a book about Shakespeare’s narrative and a collection of essays on Thomas Hardy.
