Jenny Hartley

Jenny Hartley is Emeritus Professor at the University of Roehampton. She is the author of two books on British women's writing from the Second World War, and The Reading Groups Book (21, 22 OUP), a pioneering survey of reading groups. Her work on Dickens includes Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women (Methuen 28) and editing The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens (OUP 212). She is a founder member of the Prison Reading Groups project, and was President of the International Dickens Fellowship 213-215.