Alexandra Harris is a literary critic and cultural historian. She worked for ten years at the University of Liverpool, and is now Professor of English at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of Romantic Moderns (2010), Weatherland (2015), both published by Thames & Hudson, and The Rising Down: Lives in a Sussex Landscape (2024), as well as many essays on art and literature.

'Harris's [book] is a pencil sketch in clear brisk lines. As an introduction to Woolf, Harris's study will do very well: she writes beautifully, with an eye for lucid detail ' - Sunday Times

Alexandra Harris is a literary critic and cultural historian. She worked for ten years at the University of Liverpool, and is now Professor of English at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of Romantic Moderns (2010), Weatherland (2015), both published by Thames & Hudson, and The Rising Down: Lives in a Sussex Landscape (2024), as well as many essays on art and literature.

'Harris's [book] is a pencil sketch in clear brisk lines. As an introduction to Woolf, Harris's study will do very well: she writes beautifully, with an eye for lucid detail ' - Sunday Times

Alexandra Harris is a literary critic and cultural historian. She worked for ten years at the University of Liverpool, and is now Professor of English at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of Romantic Moderns (2010), Weatherland (2015), both published by Thames & Hudson, and The Rising Down: Lives in a Sussex Landscape (2024), as well as many essays on art and literature.

'Harris's [book] is a pencil sketch in clear brisk lines. As an introduction to Woolf, Harris's study will do very well: she writes beautifully, with an eye for lucid detail ' - Sunday Times