About Judy Simons

Judy Simons is Emeritus Professor of English at De Montfort University, where she was Pro Vice Chancellor. She was previously Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University and has held visiting posts at the Queen's University, Belfast, and the University of Warwick. She has written widely on women writers and on genres as varied as children's literature and life-writing. Her books include: Literature in Context, as co-editor, (2001) and A Woman's Business: Women, Writing and the Marketplace (1998), and, as author, Mansfield Park and Persuasion: A Casebook (1997), Diaries and Journals of Literary Women (1990), and Fanny Burney (1988).