Laura Marcus 7 March 1956–22 September 2021

Abstract

Laura Marcus, our loved colleague and friend, tragically died in September 2021, after a brief illness, so brief that we were all shocked and unprepared for this early death. She was at the height of her powers. Laura had a thirty-year connection with Women: a cultural review. She became our Reviews Editor in 1990 and subsequently became one of the Editors. During this period she moved from Birkbeck, University of London, to the University of Sussex (1999), from there to the Regius Professorship at the University of Edinburgh (2007), and from Edinburgh to the Goldsmiths’ Professorship at Oxford (2010). She published some of her most renowned books during her time with Women: Autobiographical Discourses, Theory, Criticism, Practice (1994), a study of Virginia Woolf (1997), The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Literature (2004), The