Daisy Hay
Daisy Hay
Daisy Hay
Daisy Hay is Associate Professor of English Literature and Life Writing, and a practicing biographer. She is the author of three biographies – Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives (2010), Mr and Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance (2015) and Dinner with Joseph Johnson (forthcoming, 2022) as well a short book about Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (2018).
She is the recipient of the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize from the British Academy and a Somerset Maugham Award, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is particularly interested in the challenges and opportunities inherent in writing about groups of people, and in the evolution of the public significance of the private life in English literary culture in the long eighteenth century.