Rosemary Ashton is Emeritus Quain Professor of English Language and Literature, University College London. She is the author of eleven books, including Victorian Bloomsbury, and most recently One Hot Summer, Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli and the Great Stink of 1858 (Yale, 2017).
Rosemary is a Fellow of the British Academy, an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for "services to comparative literature" and of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in London.
Rosemary is a Fellow of the British Academy, an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for "services to comparative literature" and of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in London.