Richardson, Joanna, 1925-2008

Joanna Leah Richardson (1925-2008) was a prolific biographer, translator, literary critic, and journalist, known for her studies of nineteenth and early twentieth-century French and English authors.

Born on August 8, 1925, in London, England, Joanna Richardson was the daughter of Frederick and Charlotte Richardson. She spent her childhood at Hampstead Garden Suburb and was educated at the Downs School, Seaford, in Sussex. She then studied at St. Anne's College, Oxford, where she read modern languages. After graduation, she worked briefly as a research assistant to the illustrations editor of Chambers's Encyclopaedia, and then became a correspondent for the New English Weekly . She later returned to Oxford to do research under Enid Starkie, a literary critic and biographer of nineteenth-century French poets.

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