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Dame Gillian Patricia Kempster Beer, (née Thomas; born 27 January 1935) is a British literary critic and academia. She was President of Clare Hall from 1994 to 2001, and King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge from 1994 to 2002.
She served as chair of the judges for the Booker Prize in 1997.
Her most intensive literary criticism lies in the field of Victorian studies. Darwin's Plots (1983), in particular, related the form of Victorian novels to Darwinism thinking. Its significance as a work was confirmed by the publication of a second edition by Cambridge University Press in 2000 and a third edition in 2009. She has also written important collections of essays on Virginia Woolf ( The Common Ground, 1996) and on other aspects of the relations of literature, science, and other academic disciplines.
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She married the literary critic John Beer in September 1962; they have three sons.
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