Katherine Duncan-Jones (1941–2022)
Author of Shakespeare's Life and World
About the Author
Katherine Duncan-Jones is a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Research Fellow of University College, London.
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- Legal name
- Duncan-Jones, Katherine Dorothea
- Birthdate
- 1941-05-13
- Date of death
- 2022-10-16
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Birmingham, England, UK
- Place of death
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Cause of death
- dementia {complications}
- Education
- Oxford University (St. Hilda's)
King Edward's School, Birmingham, England, UK - Occupations
- Professor of English Literature
Shakespeare scholar - Relationships
- Wilson, Bee (daughter)
Wilson, Emily R. (daughter)
Wilson, A.N. (husband|divorced)
Duncan-Jones, Richard (brother)
Duncan-Jones, Austin (father) - Organizations
- University of Oxford (Somerville College)
- Awards and honors
- Royal Society of Literature (fellow)
- Short biography
- Katherine Duncan-Jones is a daughter of the philosopher Austin Duncan-Jones and the literary scholar Elsie Duncan-Jones (née Phare). Her brother is historian Richard Duncan-Jones. She was educated at King Edward VI High School for Girls in Birmingham, and then studied at Oxford University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Bachelor of Letters degree (as per tradition, later promoted to a Master of Arts degree. In 1971, she married writer A.N. Wilson, with whom she had two daughters.
She specializes in Elizabethan literature, history and biography, especially with reference to original texts and sources in manuscript and early editions. She was the Mary Ewart Residential Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford, from 1963 to 1965. She was then a Fellow of New Hall, Cambridge from 1965 to 1966. She returned to Somerville and was Fellow and Tutor in English Literature between 1966 and her retirement in 2001. She was also Professor of English Literature at Oxford University from 1998 to 2001, and is now Professor Emerita. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1991. Her books include Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier Poet (1991), Shakespeare's Poems, edited with H.R. Woudhuysen (2007),
Shakespeare: An Ungentle Life (2010), and Shakespeare: Upstart Crow to Sweet Swan, 1592-1623 ( 2011).
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