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Tim Dolin has written and published widely on Thomas Hardy and other major Victorian novelists for academics, students, and general readers. He has edited and written introductions to Penguin and World’s Classics editions (including Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Charlotte Brontë’s Villette), as well as books for the academic market: Mistress of the House: Women of Property in the Victorian Novel in 1997, and Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies, which he co-edited with the distinguished Hardyan Peter Widdowson in 2004.
Most recently, he completed a new book on George Eliot for the ‘Authors in Context’ series produced by Oxford World’s Classics (2005), which examines the work of some of the best-selling World’s Classics authors in relation both to their own time and the present day. It was while working on the biographical material in George Eliot that Tim became interested in literary biography as a form.
He is presently preparing a new illustrated biography of Hardy for Haus Publishing’s Life and Times series, and writing chapters on Wilkie Collins and Walter Scott for the Cambridge Companions series.
Tim also works on Australian cultural history. He is tracing the influence of British and American mass-market popular fiction in Australian culture in The Secret Reading Life of Us, and co-editing a collection of essays, Antipodean Modern: Cultural Responses to Modernisation in Australia, 1900-2000.
Tim is a Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow in the Australia Research Institute at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia. He is married to the Australian poet Lucy Dougan. They and their three children divide their time between Perth and the seaside town of Albany on the south coast of WA.
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