Barbara Emerson’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro British historian
Is Writer 
Historian 
Biographer 
From United Kingdom 
Type

Literature 
Science 
Social science 

Gender female

Dr. Barbara Emerson is an English historian and biographer, known for her biography of King Leopold II of Belgium. She is also a fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford.
Emerson received her degree from St Hilda’s College, Oxford where she later taught.
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.”

Works

  • Barbara Emerson, Leopold II of the Belgians: King of Colonialism, (1979)
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