Nicola Bradbury


Nicola Anne Lulham Bradbury D. Phil. is an English literary critic, lecturer, editor, and author, specializing in the 19th century novel.

Life

Bradbury was born in Weston-super-Mare, the daughter of Robin J. Bradbury and Joan Lulham, who had married in 1949. She was the middle child of a family of three, with an older brother, Peter, and a younger brother, Christopher. She was educated at the University of Oxford and then at McGill, with a Commonwealth Scholarship awarded in 1974. Bradbury later reported that in Canada she "first encountered ‘theory’ and that stood me in good stead at later stages in my career.” She graduated MA from both Oxford and McGill and is also a Doctor of Philosophy of Oxford, with a thesis entitled 'The Process and the Effect: a Study of the Developments of the Novel Form in the Later Work of Henry James'.
By 1989 Bradbury was a lecturer at the University of Reading, and from 1998 to 2005 was a Director of the Modern Humanities Research Association, English Editor for Modern Language Review, and editor of The Yearbook of English Studies, succeeding Andrew Gurr.
Much of her work has focussed on the novelists Henry James and Charles Dickens.

Selected publications