Rosemary Ashton, OBE, FRSL, FBA, is Quain Professor of
English Language and Literature at University College
London. She is the author of critical and
biographical studies in nineteenth-century literature and
culture, including monographs on George Henry Lewes (Oxford
University Press, 1991), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Blackwell, 1996),
George Eliot (Penguin, 1996), and Thomas and Jane Carlyle (Chatto,
2002); two books on Anglo-German relations, The German Idea: Four
English Writers and the Reception of German Thought 1800-1860
(Cambridge University Press, 1980) and Little Germany: Exile and
Asylum in Victorian Britain (Oxford University Press, 1986).
Her most recent book is 142 Strand: A
Radical Address in Victorian London (Chatto, 2006), an account
of the progressive writers who congregated in the home of the
radical publisher John Chapman in the 1850s. She
is currently leading a collaborative research project, the
Leverhulme-funded Bloomsbury Project, a study of educational,
medical, and social institutions established on reforming principles
in nineteenth-century Bloomsbury.
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