Dame Gillian Beer, DBE (b. 27 January 1935, Surrey, England) is a British literary critic. Born Gillian Patricia Kempster Burley, Beer studied English Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford. She was a fellow of Girton College, Cambridge, for 30 years. She was later King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge, and later President of Clare Hall. She served as chair of the judges for the Booker Prize in 1997. Wikipedia
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Beer’s commitment to pursuing the complex interface between scientific and imaginative worlds was the impetus for Darwin’s Plots (1983), her pioneering study of evolution as a theme of the 19th-century English novel. She launches this work with the sugge www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth134
National Portrait Gallery, list of portraits for Dame Gillian Patricia Kempster Beer (ne Burley) including Dame Gillian Patricia Kempster Beer (ne Burley) by Julia Hedgecoe, www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp11759
