Frances
Wilson was educated at Oxford University and lectured on nineteenth- and
twentieth-century English literature for fifteen years before becoming a
full-time writer. Her books include Literary
Seductions: Compulsive Writers and Diverted Readers and The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth: A Life,
which won the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. She reviews widely in
the British press and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She
divides her time between London and Normandy.
