Natasha Simonova

Dr. Natasha Simonova is a scholar specializing in English Literature of the long eighteenth century. She currently serves as a Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London. Her academic career includes lecturing and research roles at the University of Edinburgh, University of Cambridge, and University of Oxford.

Research Interests

• Romance and the Early Novel
• Women’s Writing
• Manuscript Cultures
• History of Literary Criticism

Simonova’s current book project, The Grey Ladies: The Secret Literary Lives of Eighteenth-Century Women (Chatto & Windus), reconstructs the intellectual biographies of the Grey family of Wrest Park through their extensive manuscript correspondence.