Dinah Birch

I have published widely on Victorian fiction and poetry, and on the work of the critic John Ruskin

My work on Anthony Trollope includes Oxford World’s Classics editions of Can You Forgive Her? (2012) and The Small House at Allington (2014); an edition of The Duke’s Children for Penguin (); and ‘Fiction and the Law:  Trollope’s Stylistic Uncertainties’, an essay for a forthcoming collection of essays (On Style in Victorian Fiction, ed. Daniel Tyler, for Cambridge University Press). My books include Ruskin’s Myths (1988), Ruskin and Gender (edited with Francis O’Gorman), and Our Victorian Education (2007). I am the general editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature (7^th ed., 2009).  I have edited John Ruskin: Selected Writings (2004), and published a new edition of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford (2011).

I am a regular broadcaster and contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and London Review of Books.

I chair the Editorial Board of The Conversation (an international online journal for the dissemination of research: http://theconversation.com/uk) and the Advisory Council for the University of London’s IES.