Kathryn Hughes

Life

She was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University and the University of East Anglia (UEA); her doctorate in Victorian history was developed into her first book, The Victorian Governess. She is the Director of Creative Non-Fiction at the University of East Anglia,

Hughes' book George Eliot: The Last Victorian was awarded the 1999 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography, a life of the author George Eliot, and her 2005 biography of Isabella Beeton, The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton was also well-received, and made the long list for the Samuel Johnson Prize. (Hughes's UEA website stated that the book had made the shortlist, but this turned out not to be true). Reviewing Mrs Beeton in the UK daily newspaper The Independent, Frances Spalding wrote: "There is seemingly no aspect of Victorian life that Kathryn Hughes cannot assimilate and understand from the inside. This is living history, in which massive research and impeccable scholarship is handled with invigorating panache".

Hughes has also reviewed and written for The Guardian, The Economist and The Times Literary Supplement. An occasional presenter of Open Book on BBC Radio 4, she also contributes to the same network's Saturday Review.

Bibliography

Books

(Bloomsbury paperback )

Critical studies and reviews of Hughes' work

;Victorians undone

References

References

1. "The Royal Society of Literature: Current RSL Fellows". [[Royal Society of Literature]].
2. [http://www1.uea.ac.uk/portal/home/schools/hum/llt/People2/Academic/1.50971 Academic page]{{Dead link. (February 2020)
3. [https://www.theguardian.com/global/2007/jun/03/kathrynhughes ''The Guardian''] Full Profile
4. Lauren Razavi. "Kathryn Hughes on biography". IdeasTap.
5. "Professor Kathryn Hughes". University of East Anglia.
6. Humble, Nicola. (15 October 2005). "First catch your cook". [[The Guardian]].
7. . (27 March 2006). ["Press Release: BBC Four: Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2006 longlist"](https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/03_march/27/johnson.shtml).
8. Spalding, Frances. (27 October 2005). "The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton, By Kathryn Hughes: The cook, the beef, the life and the mother". [[The Independent]].
9. . ["Saturday Review: Uncle Vanya, Triple 9, The Night Manager, Mend the Living, Delacroix"](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0707wbs).
10. . ["Saturday Review: Hamlet, Sensorium, 45 Years, Les Murray, Ascent of Woman"](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b067vkgs).
11. . ["Saturday Review: Upstream Colour; The Story of the Jews on BBC 2; new Margaret Atwood book Maddaddam"](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0398260).
12. Leith, Sam. (2024-05-16). "Catland by Kathryn Hughes review – paws for thought". The Guardian.
13. Reich, Leah. (2024-06-04). "Book Review: 'Catland,' by Kathryn Hughes".
14. McLemee, Scott. "Wain's World".
15. Mead, Rebecca. (2024-06-03). "The Man Who Reinvented the Cat".