Barbara Emerson
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Barbara Emerson | |
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| Alma mater | St. Hilda's College, Oxford |
| Occupations | Historian and Biographer |
| Spouse | Michael Emerson (div) |
Barbara Emerson is an English historian and biographer, known for her biography of King Leopold II of Belgium. She was also a fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford.[1]
Emerson received her degree in PPE from St Hilda's College, Oxford where she later taught.[2]
She was highly critical of Adam Hochschild's book King Leopold's Ghost, rebuking it in The Guardian as "a very shoddy piece of work."[3]
