Nicola Anne Lulham Bradbury (born 1951) is an English literary critic, lecturer, editor, and author, specializing in the 19th century novel.
[1] She was educated at the University of Oxford and then at McGill, with a Commonwealth Scholarship awarded in 1974.
[2] Bradbury later reported that in Canada she "first encountered ‘theory’ and that stood me in good stead at later stages in my career.”[3] She graduated MA from both Oxford and McGill and is also a Doctor of Philosophy of Oxford, with a thesis entitled 'The Process and the Effect: a Study of the Developments of the Novel Form in the Later Work of Henry James'.
[4] By 1989 Bradbury was a lecturer at the University of Reading,[5] and from 1998 to 2005 was a Director of the Modern Humanities Research Association, English Editor for Modern Language Review, and editor of The Yearbook of English Studies,[6] succeeding Andrew Gurr.
[7] Much of her work has focussed on the novelists Henry James and Charles Dickens.