16 Facts About Lucy Newlyn

Lucy Newlyn was born on 1956 and is a poet and academic.

Lucy Newlyn is Emeritus Fellow in English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, having retired as a professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford in 2016.

Lucy Newlyn grew up in Leeds, where she attended Lawnswood High School, winning an open scholarship to read English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, in 1974.

Lucy Newlyn took up her Oxford place in 1975 and graduated with a congratulatory first in 1978.

In 1984 Lucy Newlyn took up a Stipendiary Lectureship at St Edmund Hall.

Lucy Newlyn gained the title Professor of English Language and Literature in 2005.

Lucy Newlyn is Honorary Professor at the University of Aberystwyth, an Advisory Editor of the journal Romanticism, a Fellow of the English Association, and a Patron of the Wordsworth Trust.

Lucy Newlyn was literary editor of The Oxford Magazine from 2011 to 2018.

Lucy Newlyn was co-founder, with Stuart Estell, of the Hall Writers' Forum, an online resource launched in 2013 for the exchange of writing and discussion of literature and the arts.

Lucy Newlyn is an authority on Wordsworth and Coleridge, and has published extensively in the field of English Romantic literature, including four books with Oxford University Press and the Cambridge Companion to Coleridge.

Lucy Newlyn's book Reading, Writing, and Romanticism: The Anxiety of Reception won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay prize in 2001: 'a signal contribution to British Romantic studies and literary theory'.

Since 2003, Lucy Newlyn has been researching the prose of Edward Thomas.

Lucy Newlyn is general co-editor of Edward Thomas, Selected Prose Writings, a six-volume edition for Oxford University Press.

Lucy Newlyn is a published poet and anthologist, as well as an academic.

Lucy Newlyn ran university workshops on 'The Craft of Writing' with Christopher Ricks during his tenure as Professor of Poetry; between 2001 and 2016 she ran regular writing workshops for students at St Edmund Hall.

Lucy Newlyn's Facebook group The Craft of Poetry was a writing workshop which ran for one year after the publication of that book.