Sally Ledger, English scholar: born East Grinstead, Sussex 14 December
1961;lecturer in Victorian Studies, Birkbeck College, London
University 1995-2001, reader 2001-06, professor 2006-08;Hildred
Carlile Chair in English, Royal Holloway, University of London2008;
married 1988 Jim Porteous (one son); died Letchworth, Hertfordshire 21
January 2009.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/sally-ledger-victorian-scholar-who-advanced-the-study-of-women-writers-and-recast-views-of-dickens-1570729.html

Sally Ledger, a leading scholar in Victorian Studies and the Hildred
Carlile Chair of English at Royal Holloway, died suddenly of a brain
haemorrhage. She was only 47, but already had a list of impressive
achievements behind her. This is a cruel loss to her family, but also
to the discipline in which she excelled.

Ledger was born in East Grinstead and grew up in Crawley. She was from
solid Labour Party stock and had fond memories of campaigning on door-
steps long before she was eligibleto vote. Her no-nonsense, straight-
forward sense of dealing with people, institutions and literary
history came from this background. She had initially thought of
studying music, butafter a year working in France, she decided in 1982
to study English at Queen Mary's College, London. Signs of things to
come were indicatedby her winning the George Smith Prize in 1985 for
the best First in English across the colleges of the University of
London.


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