Patricia Marjory Duncker (born 29 June 1951) is a British novelist and academic.

Academic career

Born in

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, the daughter of Noel Aston Duncker (1904–1973), an accountant, and Sheila Joan (née Beer) (1918–2016), a teacher, Her aunt was the poet

Patricia Beer Patricia Beer (4 November 1919 – 15 August 1999) was an English poet and critic. Born to a family of Plymouth Brethren, a strict religious order, she took inspiration for her poetry from there, with particular influence from her mother who in ...

, after whom she was named. Duncker attended

Bedales School Bedales School is a coeducational boarding and day public school, in the village of Steep, near the market town of Petersfield in Hampshire, England. It was founded in 1893 by Amy Garrett Badley and John Haden Badley in reaction to the li ...

in England and, after a period spent working in Germany, read English at

Newnham College, Cambridge Newnham College is a women's constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1871 by a group organising Lectures for Ladies, members of which included philosopher Henry Sidgwick and suffragist campaigner Millicen ...

. She earned a doctorate from

St Hugh's College, Oxford St Hugh's College is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford. It is located on a site on St Margaret's Road, to the north of the city centre. It was founded in 1886 by Elizabeth Wordsworth as a ...

. She has taught at the

University of Wales, Aberystwyth Aberystwyth University () is a public research university in Aberystwyth, Wales. Aberystwyth was a founding member institution of the former federal University of Wales. The university has over 8,000 students studying across three academic facul ...

(1991–2002) and was Professor of Prose Fiction at the

University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a Public university, public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus university, campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and twenty-six schools of ...

, working with the novelists Andrew Cowan and her fellow Professor Michele Roberts. In January 2007, she was appointed Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Manchester, where she teaches in the Department of English and American Studie

Duncker has been married four times, including to: Pedro P. D'a Guedes in 1972; David Norbrook in 1981, and to Peter A. Lambert in 1998;Patricia M Duncker in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 - Ancestry.com
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Bibliography

Fiction

*'' Hallucinating Foucault'' (novel, 1996) (

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, 1997) *'' James Miranda Barry'' (novel, 1999), published in the United States as "The Doctor" *'' The Deadly Space Between'' (novel, 2002) *''Miss Webster and Chérif'' (novel, 2006) *'' The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge'' (novel, 2009) *'' Sophie and the Sibyl : a Victorian romance'' (novel, 2015) Short stories: *'' Monsieur Shoushana's Lemon Trees'' (short stories, 1997) *'' Seven Tales of Sex and Death'' (short stories, 2003)

Non-fiction / academic (selection)

*''Writing on the Wall: Selected Essays'' (2002) *"The Suggestive Spectacle: Queer Passions in Brontë's '' Villette'' and '' The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie''", ''Theorising

Muriel Spark Dame Muriel Sarah Spark (; 1 February 1918 – 13 April 2006). was a List of Scottish novelists, Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist. Life Muriel Camberg was born in the Bruntsfield area of Edinburgh, the daughter of Bernar ...

: Gender, Race Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis'', ed. Martin McQuillan (2002) 67–77. * *"

Katherine Mansfield Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a New Zealand writer and critic who was an important figure in the Literary modernism, modernist movement. Her works are celebrated across the world and have been ...

: The Writer of the Submerged World", ''Interrupted Lives in Literature'', ed.

Andrew Motion Sir Andrew Peter Motion (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship, Motion founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and a ...

(2004), 53–65. *Introduction to the new

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edition and new translation by Helen Constantine of

Théophile Gautier Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier ( , ; 30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic. While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and rema ...

's '' Mademoiselle de Maupin'' (2005) * (Patricia Duncker on

George Eliot Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrot ...

) *

References

External links

Official websiteDuncker's page at the University of Manchester web siteProfile at www.contemporarywriters.comBloomsbury author information
{{DEFAULTSORT:Duncker, Patricia 1951 births Living people 20th-century British novelists 21st-century British novelists People educated at Bedales School Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford Academics of Aberystwyth University Academics of the University of East Anglia Academics of the University of Manchester