Jacqueline Banerjee, our second Contributing Editor of the Victorian Web, was educated at King's College, London, where she took her BA Hons (1st Class) and PhD in English language and literature. She was the joint winner of the Brewer Prize for Literature in her first year, and after graduation held two postgraduate scholarships consecutively.
After that she took up lectureships at the Universities of British Columbia, Canada, and Cape Coast, Ghana, before gaining a University Grants Commission Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Poona in India. On returning to England she held another Research Fellowship at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, to work on what was then called "Commonwealth Literature," resigning early from that when her husband was offered a Professorship in Japan. She then worked as a visiting lecturer at Kobe College in Japan for many years, except during her husband's sabbatical in England in 1990-91, when she was an "honorary faculty member" at her alma mater, King's College, London. In 2001, she took an early retirement from her long visiting lectureship in Japan and is now living in Surrey, UK.
Her publications include Through the Northern Gate: Childhood and Growing Up in British Fiction, 1718-1901 (Peter Lang, 1996), Paul Scott (Writers and Their Works series, Northcote House/British Council, 1999) and numerous articles in journals such as College English, English, English Studies, London Magazine, the TLS, and The Victorian Newsletter. Her book on Literary Surrey was published by John Owen Smith of Headley Down in 2005, and she is hoping to start a book on George Meredith next. She continues to teach privately, reviews regularly for English Studies, and also works as a freelance journalist, writing short stories and literary pieces for weekly magazines.
Last modified 29 June 2006