Barbara Gladys Hardy, FRSL, FBA (née Nathan; 27 June 1924 – 12 February 2016) was a British literary scholar, author, and poet.
[1][3] Her father was Maurice Nathan, a tobacconist, and her mother was Gladys Emily Ann, née Abraham.
[1] On 16 March 1946, she married Ernest Dawson Hardy, a civil servant at the Inland Revenue.
[5] In 1962, Hardy was awarded the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize by the British Academy for her monograph The Novels of George Eliot.
[6] In 1988 she delivered the British Academy's Sarah Tryphena Phillips Lecture in American Literature and History.