Isobel Armstrong

Who is Isobel Armstrong?

Isobel Armstrong FBA is a British academic. She is Emeritus Professor of English at Birkbeck, University of London and a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of English Studies at the University of London. She is a Fellow of the British Academy.

She is a critic of nineteenth-century poetry, literature and women's writing. Her publications include The Radical Aesthetic, Women's Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre and Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Politics and Poetics. She is also a published poet.

Armstrong is the younger sister of writer Diana Wynne Jones.