Juliet Barker

Juliet R. V. Barker FRSL (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.

Barker was educated at Bradford Girls' Grammar School and St Anne's College, Oxford, where she gained her doctorate in medieval history. .

A biography and summary of each book can be found on her official website, which was launched September 2009.

Selected works

 * The Brontës: Selected Poems
 * (1986) The Tournament in England: 1100-1400, Woodbridge, England: The Boydell Press ISBN 0-85115-942-7
 * 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 0-349-11918-X
 * (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 0-85115-470-0

Honours and awards
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.