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Ulrike Horstmann-Guthrie

Ulrike Horstmann-Guthrie was born in West Germany in 1953 and decided in her early teens that where she really wanted to live was Regency or Edwardian England, the former after reading Jane Austen, the latter because of Edith Nesbit’s stories. After many years of pursuing her dream through travel and study (MA in English, Russian and German Literature from Hamburg University; class: first), she settled in England in 1977, teaching German at the University of Leicester and studying Victorian literature at the Centre for Victorian Studies there. From 1979 to 1983 she taught German at the University of Oxford, gaining an MPhil in Comparative Literature in 1981. She also began (and never finished) a DPhil on Thackeray and Fontane, publishing some of her findings in various articles, and got married in 1982. In 1983 she joined the Department of Extra-Mural Studies at the University of Manchester as Tutor in Languages and Literature, and it was here that she discovered the joys of teaching mature students. So when in 1984 her husband took up a post at New Hall, Cambridge, after commuting to Manchester for a year, she began to teach for the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education. In Cambridge her son (1986) and daughter (1989) were born, and since 1985 she has taught English, European and American literature from 1700 to the present day to mature students and German language and literature to undergraduates. The Regency, Victorian and Edwardian eras are still her favourite teaching periods, and immersion in their literature and social history has remained her passion.

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