Career
Her first book was The Dragon Empress: The Life and Times of Tz'u-hsi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908 (1972), followed by the controversial Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (1976) a provocative study of Roman Catholic adoration of the Virgin Mary. These were followed by Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form and Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism.
Her novel The Lost Father was on the Booker Prize shortlist in 1988; the non-fiction From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers won a Mythopoeic Award in 1996. The companion study of the male terror figure (from ancient myth and folklore to modern obsessions), No Go the Bogeyman: On Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock was published in 2000 and won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize that year. Her other novels include The Leto Bundle and Indigo. Her book Phantasmagoria (2006), traces the ways in which 'the spirit' has been represented across different mediums, from waxworks to cinema
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984. She gave the 1994 Reith Lectures on Managing Monsters and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours for services to literature. Received an honorary doctorate (DLitt) from the University of Oxford on 21 June 2006
She also has honorary degrees from the Universities of Exeter, York and St Andrews, and honorary doctorates from Sheffield Hallam University and the University of North London. She is currently Professor in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex.
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