(1935-01-27) 27 January 1935 (age 89) Surrey, England
5th President of Clare Hall, Cambridge
In office 1994–2001
Preceded by
Anthony Low
Succeeded by
Ekhard Salje
Dame Gillian Patricia Kempster Beer, DBE, FBA (née Thomas; born 27 January 1935) is a British literary critic and academic. She was President of Clare Hall from 1994 to 2001, and King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge from 1994 to 2002.
Dame Gillian Patricia Kempster Beer, DBE, FBA (née Thomas; born 27 January 1935) is a British literary critic and academic. She was President of Clare...
became famous, the brewery named one of their beers after her – a Belgian-style farmhouse ale called "Gillian". Anderson is the eldest of three siblings...
British author Gillian Baxter, British writer GillianBeer (born 1935), British literary critic Gillian Bevan (born 1950), British actress Gillian Blake (born...
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Secker & Warburg Lord Gowrie (chair) Professor GillianBeer Anne Chisholm Nicholas Clee Olivier Todd Shortlist Tibor Fischer Under...
Though Reading". In Nicola Bown; Carolyn Burdett; Pamela Thurschwell; GillianBeer (eds.). The Victorian Supernatural. Cambridge University Press. pp. 87–108...
at the University of Cambridge. He was married to the literary critic GillianBeer, DBE. He was president of the Charles Lamb Society from 1989 until 2002...
"The Psychology of Childhood in Victorian Literature and Medicine". In GillianBeer; Helen Small; Trudi Tate (eds.). Literature, Science, Psychoanalysis...
– The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses 2017 GillianBeer – Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll 2018...
Edition -- Letters to Fanny Knight, 1814-1816". Jane Austen (prefaced by GillianBeer), Persuasion, Penguin Classics, 2003 ISBN 978-0-14-143968-6 p. xxiii...
required.) Creative Lives and Works- Frank Kermode, George Steiner, GillianBeer and Christopher Ricks in conversation with Alan Macfarlane, ed. Radha...
to have been delivered by Gordon Brown, but was postponed 2007 Dame GillianBeer — Darwin and the Consciousness of Others 2008 Muhammad Yunus — Poverty...
University University of Cambridge 4th President of Clare Hall, Cambridge In office 1987–1994 Preceded by Sir Michael Stoker Succeeded by Dame GillianBeer...
Nationality German and British 6th President of Clare Hall, Cambridge In office 2001–2008 Preceded by Dame GillianBeer Succeeded by Sir Martin Harris...
Robert Aglionby Slaney, and other family members. Darwin, Charles; GillianBeer (1998). The Origin of Species. Oxford University Press. p. 400. ISBN 0-19-283438-X...
Literature, Science, Psychoanalysis, 1830-1970: Essays in Honour of GillianBeer (editor, with Trudi Tate; Oxford University Press, 2003) The Long Life...
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