Amanda Vickery
| Amanda Vickery | |
|---|---|
| Born |
8 December 1962 Preston, Lancashire, England |
| Residence | London |
| Citizenship | English |
| Nationality | English |
| Fields | Modern history |
| Institutions | Queen Mary, University of London |
| Alma mater | Bedford College, London |
| Thesis | Women of the local elite in Lancashire, 1750-c.1825 (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | Penelope J. Corfield |
Amanda Jane Vickery (born 8 December 1962) is an English historian, writer, radio and television presenter, and professor of early modern history at Queen Mary, University of London.
Vickery was born in Preston, Lancashire, England, and attended Penwortham Girls' Grammar School. She graduated from the former Bedford College, London (now part of Royal Holloway, University of London), where she completed her PhD in Modern History.
Vickery is professor of early modern history at Queen Mary, University of London, and has held academic posts at Royal Holloway, University of London, and the University of York. Her academic interests encompass the Late Modern period from the seventeenth century to the present with a strong emphasis on the Georgian period in England.
She has written widely on social history, literature, the history of romance and the home, politics, law and crime with an emphasis on women's studies and feminism.
In 1998 she published her first book The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England, for which she received the Whitfield prize, the Wolfton History prize and the Longman-History Today prize.
In 2006 she co-edited Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830.
In 2009 Vickery's Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England was published. The book was a well received work.
Vickery has contributed to many Open University history programmes.
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