Helen Gardner (critic)

(1908-1986)

British academic

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Dame Helen Louise Gardner, DBE, FBA (13 February 1908 – 4 June 1986) was an English literary critic and academic. Gardner began her teaching career at the University of Birmingham, and from 1966 to 1975 was a Merton Professor of English Literature, the first woman to have that position. She was best known for her work on the poets John Donne and T. S. Eliot, but also published on John Milton and William Shakespeare. She published over a dozen books, and received multiple honours.

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Born	Helen Louise Gardner 13 February 1908 Finchley, Middlesex England UK
Died	4 June 1986 (aged 78) Bicester, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Zodiac	Aquarius
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