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.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 She was educated at the University of Oxford and then at McGill, with a Commonwealth Scholarship awarded in 1974.Papers by command Volume 7 (Great Britain Parliament House of Commons, 1974), p. 147 Bradbury later reported that in Canada she "first encountered ‘theory’ and that stood me in good stead at later stages in my career.”Charles Levi, Canada: The Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (Von Hügel Institute, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, 2009), p. 52 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'.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'."
By 1989 Bradbury was a lecturer at the University of Reading,Commonwealth Universities Yearbook (1989), p. 731 and from 1998 to 2005 was a Director of the Modern Humanities Research Association, English Editor for Modern Language Review, and editor of The Yearbook of English Studies,Nicola Bradbury Research at reading.ac.uk, accessed 27 December 2017 succeeding Andrew Gurr.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."
Much of her work has focussed on the novelists Henry James and Charles Dickens.
Selected publications Henry James: the later novels (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979), Filming James in Essays in Criticism, vol. 29 (1979)Filming James, NICOLA BRADBURY at oup.com, accessed 27 December 2017 Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (Oxford: World's Classics, 1981), ed. Nicola Bradbury, "'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) Charles Dickens' Great Expectations (St. Martin's Press, 1990) Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (Wordsworth Classics, 1994), ed. and introduced Nicola Bradbury, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ed. Nicola Bradbury (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1996) The Yearbook of English Studies: vol. 30: 2000: Time and Narrative (W. S. Maney & Son, 1999), edited by Dr. Nicola Bradbury, Jane Austen, Emma (Wordsworth Classics, 2000), ed. and introduced Nicola Bradbury, Henry James, The Golden Bowl (Wordsworth Classics, 2000), ed. and introduced Nicola Bradbury, "Dickens and the form of the novel" in John O. Jordan, ed, The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens (2001) The Yearbook of English Studies: vol. 31: 2001: North American Short Stories and Short Fictions (2001), edited by Dr Nicola Bradbury The Yearbook of English Studies: vol. 32: 2002: Children in Literature (2002), edited by Dr Nicola Bradbury Penguin Classics Introduction to Bleak House by Charles Dickens (Penguin Books, 2003) The Yearbook of English Studies: vol. 33: 2003: Medieval and Early Modern Miscellanies and Anthologies (2003), edited by Dr Nicola Bradbury The Yearbook of English Studies: vol. 34: 2004: Nineteenth Century Travel Writing (2004), edited by Dr Nicola Bradbury "Dickens's Use of the Autobiographical Fragment" in David Paroissien, ed., A Companion to Charles Dickens (2008), pp 18–32 Henry James, The Wings of the Dove (Wordsworth Classics, 2009), ed. and introduced Nicola Bradbury, Henry James, The Ambassadors (Cambridge University Press: The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James, vol. 18, 2015), ed. Nicola Bradbury,
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External links Dr Nicola Bradbury at reading.ac.uk Dr Nicola Bradbury at Waterstones