Margaret Reynolds
Margaret Reynolds is Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London. Her Ohio University Press edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh won the British Academy’s Rose Mary Crawshay Prize.
She is the author of a collection Victorian Women Poets (with Angela Leighton) and The Sappho Companion (nominated for the LAMBDA Literary Award for Biography) and The Sappho History on the reception of the classical fragments. She is the presenter of “Adventures in Poetry” (BBC Radio 4), a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge and a Trustee of the Foundling Museum.
Margaret’s memoir, The Wild Track, is a meditation on on adoption, and what makes a woman want to become a mother, told through the prism of her experience in attempting to adopt a child, was published by Doubleday in February 2021.