Juliet Barker

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birthdate = 1958
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occupation = Historian
nationality = British
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subject = William Wordsworth
Brontës
Medieval warfare
Medieval tournaments
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Juliet R. V. Barker (born 1958) is a British historian, specialising in the Middle Ages and literary biography. She is the author of a number of well-regarded works on the Brontës, William Wordsworth, and medieval tournaments. From 1983 to 1989 she was the curator and librarian of the Bronte Parsonage Museum.cite web|url=http://www.andrewlownie.co.uk/books/barker.juliet/index.shtml|title=Juliet Barker biography|date=2006|publisher=Andrew Lownie literary agency|accessdate=2008-07-03]

Barker was educated at Bradford Girls' Grammar School and St Anne's College, Oxford, where she gained her doctorate in medieval history. In 1999 she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Bradford. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

elected works

* "The Brontës: Selected Poems"
* (1986) "The Tournament in England: 1100-1400", Woodbridge, England: The Boydell Press ISBN 0851159427
* "The Brontë Yearbook"
* "The Brontës"
* "The Brontës: A Life in Letters"
* "Charlotte Brontë: Juvenilia 1829-35"
* "Wordsworth: A Life"
* "Wordsworth: A Life in Letters"
* (2005) "Agincourt: The King, the Campaign, the Battle", UK: Little, Brown ISBN 034911918X
* (2007) "The Deafening Sound of Silent Tears: The Story of Caring For Life

Collaborations

* (1989) with Richard Barber: "Tournaments: Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages" The Boydell Press. ISBN 0851154700

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