About Juliet Barker
Born 1958. Juliet Barker is a British librarian, literary historian, medievalist, historian, writer and museologist.
Juliet R. V. Barker (born 1958) is an English historian, specialising in the Middle Ages and literary biography. She is the author of works on the Brontës, William Wordsworth, and medieval tournaments. From 1983 to 1989 she was the curator and librarian of the Bronte Parsonage Museum.
Barker was educated at Bradford Girls' Grammar School and St Anne's College, Oxford, where she gained her doctorate in medieval history. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
The Brontës won the Yorkshire Post Book Award and was short-listed for both the AT&T Non-Fiction Prize and the Marsh Biography Award.
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