Vivien Noakes (née Langley; 16 February 1937 – 17 February 2011)[1] was a British biographer, editor and critic, an expert on Edward Lear and the literature of the First World War.
[3] She lectured at Harvard University and at the Yale Center for British Art.
[4][5][6][7] She was married to the painter Michael Noakes, in collaboration with whom she produced The Daily Life of The Queen: An Artist's Diary (2000); the couple had three children.
[1] She died of cancer the day after her 74th birthday, a month after suffering a stroke.
[8] She left copies of many of Lear's letters to Somerville College Library.