Judy Simons

Judy Simons was born and brought up in Sheffield and is former editor of Sheffield Jewish Journal. She studied English at Manchester University and is Professor Emeritus at De Montfort University. Leicester. She has published ten books on nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, specialising in women's writing and in life-writing. Judy is a trustee of the Girls Day School Trust and Chair of Buxton Opera House. The Northern Line is her first work of literary non-fiction.