[1] Working in the United States from 1969 until her death, she became Distinguished Professor of English and Dean of Graduate Studies at Rutgers University.
The latter included The Reasonable Man: Trollope's Legal Fiction (1970), Elizabeth Gaskell: The Novel of Social Crisis (1975), and The Old Brown Dog: Women, Workers, and Vivisection in Edwardian England (1985).
[9] She studied Arts (history, anthropology and archaeology) and achieved first-class honours, but she was ineligible to graduate as she had not matriculated.
[10] She was the recipient of the George Arnold Wood Memorial Prize (aeq), awarded annually for proficiency in History II, and the Maud Stiles Memorial Prize (aeq), awarded annually to a woman student for proficiency in History II.
The National Film and Sound Archive list of the productions with which she is associated as a scriptwriter includes:[14] She worked for the ABC into the 1960s but as television supplanted radio drama she turned more to academic interests.
[15][16] Lansbury wrote five works of fiction: Ringarra (1985), Sweet Alice (1986), Felicity (1987), The Grotto (1989), and Opium!, published posthumously.
"[17] Lansbury's first marriage was to radio producer George Edwards,[3] her godfather and friend of her father,[9] on 20 February 1953.
[9] In 1963, she moved to New Zealand after separating from Bruce Turnbull,[19] and later married John Salmon, a university professor.