2 Quotes & Sayings By Helen Gardner
Helen Gardner is best known for her pioneering work on the history of the English novel, which she first published in 1962. She graduated from St John's College, Oxford, in 1939 and was awarded a Research Fellowship at St Hugh's College, Oxford, in 1942. She was elected a Fellow of St John's in 1955. Dr. Gardner was the first woman to be appointed Reader in English Literature at the University of Manchester (1949–55), where she taught until 1966, holding several other posts at the university, including that of Professor of English Literature
She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1968. Dr Gardner's works are marked by their clarity, wit, wit, and erudition. They are characterized by the meticulous detail she brings to her work and by her ability to make shabby historical types come alive through her close observations of character and dialogue. The depiction of women characters is particularly notable for its originality and insight.
Her works include: Hannah Swette - A Tale of Tudor Times (1943) Sir Thomas Wyatt: A Biography (1951) The Elizabethan Woman: A Study in Fiction (1955) English Literature in History (1971) The Fourteenth Century: The Age of Chaucer (1972) The Fifteenth Century: The Age of Gower (1973) The Sixteenth Century: The Age of Spenser (1974) The Seventeenth Century: The Age of Shakespeare (1975) The Eighteenth Century: The Age of Johnson (1976) The Nineteenth Century: The Age of Wordsworth and Coleridge (1978) The Twentieth Century: The Age of Hardy and Yeats (1979) The Twenty-First Century: A Study in Fiction, 1900–2000 (1994).