Vivien Jones is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Gender and Culture at Leeds University, where she is also Pro-Vice Chancellor for Student Education.
Vivien held a Junior Research Fellowship at the Hall soon after it became a mixed college. Her first book centred on Henry James, but after moving to Leeds in 1983 her research and publications have focused on issues of gender and writing in the eighteenth century.
Her collection of primary documents, Women in the Eighteenth Century: Constructions of Femininity (Routledge, 1990) has become a widely-used textbook both in the UK and in the US. She has also edited a collection of specially commissioned essays entitled Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800 (Cambridge University Press, 2000). Ke