Nicola Anne Lulham Bradbury (born 1951) is an English literary critic, lecturer, editor, and author, specializing in the 19th century novel.
Life
Bradbury was born in
Weston-super-Mare, the daughter of Robin J. Bradbury and Joan Lulham, who had married in 1949. She was the middle child of a family of three, with an older brother, Peter, and a younger brother, Christopher.[1] She was educated at the
University of Oxford and then at
McGill, with a
Commonwealth Scholarship awarded in 1974.[2] Bradbury later reported that in Canada she "first encountered ‘theory’ and that stood me in good stead at later stages in my career.”[3] She graduated
MA from both Oxford and McGill and is also a
Doctor of Philosophy of Oxford, with a thesis entitled 'The Process and the Effect: a Study of the Developments of the Novel Form in the Later Work of Henry James'.[4]
"'Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is': The Celebration of Absence in The Wings of the Dove", in Ian F. A. Bell, ed., Henry James: Fiction as History (1985)
An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Henry James (Harvester Press, 1987)
ISBN978-0710810304
Charles Dickens' Great Expectations (St. Martin's Press, 1990)
ISBN978-0312056582
Henry James, The Ambassadors (Cambridge University Press: The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James, vol. 18, 2015), ed. Nicola Bradbury,
ISBN978-1107002838
Notes
^Register of Marriages for Bristol Registration District, vol. 7B, 1949, p. 75; Register of Births for Weston Registration District, vol. 7C, pp. 379, 388, 404
^Papers by command Volume 7 (Great Britain Parliament House of Commons, 1974), p. 147
^N. H. Keeble, Handbook of English and Celtic Studies in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (Stirling University Press, 1988), p. 254 : "BRADBURY, Nicola Anne Lulham (1951), MA (Oxford), MA (McGill): 'Formal Ambiguity as Ironic Perspective in Henry James's The Ambassadors'; DPhil (Oxford): 'The Process and the Effect: a Study of the Developments of the Novel Form in the Later Work of Henry James'."
^Commonwealth Universities Yearbook (1989), p. 731
^M.H.R.A. Annual Bulletin of the Modern Humanities Research Association 1999, p. 16 : "At the end of 1997, Professor A. J. Gurr relinquished the English Editorship of the Review and the Editorship of the Yearbook, both of which he had held since 1987. He is succeeded by Dr Nicola Bradbury, also of the University of Reading."