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Juliet Barker


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in Yorkshire, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1958

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Juliet R. V. Barker (born 1958) is a British historian, specialising in the Middle Ages and literary biography. She is the author of a number of well-regarded works on the Brontës, William Wordsworth, and medieval tournaments. From 1983 to 1989 she was the curator and librarian of the Brontë Parsonage Museum.

Barker was educated at Bradford Girls' Grammar School and St Anne's College, Oxford, where she gained her doctorate in medieval history. In 1999 she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Bradford. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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The Brontës

3.98 avg rating — 5,280 ratings — published 1994 — 36 editions
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Agincourt: Henry V and the ...

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The Brontës: A Life in Letters

4.32 avg rating — 535 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions
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Conquest

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England, Arise: The People,...

3.82 avg rating — 198 ratings — published 2014 — 12 editions
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Wordsworth

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The Tournament In England, ...

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The Deafening Sound of Sile...

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Brontë Country

3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1990
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Charlotte Bronte: Juvenilia...

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“The first duty of an Author is --- I conceive --- a faithful allegiance to Truth and Nature; his second, such a conscientious study of Art as shall enable him to interpret eloquently and effectively the oracles delivered by those two great deities.

--- Charlotte Bronte”
Juliet Barker, The Brontës: A Life in Letters

“If England was first and foremost a trading nation this was because its temperate climate and fertile soils, particularly in the south and east, allowed it to produce a surplus to sell.”
Juliet Barker, England, Arise: The People, the King and the Great Revolt of 1381

“After Chaucer’s death, Henry IV offered his position to Christine de Pizan, no doubt hoping that as she was a widow and her only child, her sixteen-year-old son, was effectively a hostage in his household, she could be persuaded to agree. If so, he completely misjudged this redoubtable woman, who had once replied to criticism “that it was inappropriate for a woman to be learned, as it was so rare . . . that it was even less fitting for a man to be ignorant, as it was so common.”
Juliet Barker, Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England

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