Dr Eleanor Byrne publishes article in The Conversation about Judith Kerr

Dr Eleanor Byrne is a senior lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Judith Kerr’s death at the age of 95 was met with an avalanche of tributes from readers, writers and publishers alike. Her illustrated books such as the Mog series and her first book, The Tiger Who Came to Tea (1968) have endured as children’s classics, with illustrations that bear witness to the domestic spaces of the 1960s suburban British home, carrying a focus on children and their pets and the security of a loving family life. The loving depiction of a safe and stable childhood that Kerr created in her books for stands in sharp contrast to her experience of childhood as one involving a sudden cataclysmic destruction of the life she knew in Berlin under the Nazis.

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Dr Eleanor Byrne is a senior lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her areas of specialism are Postcolonial literature and theory, nineteenth and twentieth century English literature, African and Caribbean writing, Black British writing and film, Critical Theory, especially queer theory, poststructuralism ecocriticism and feminism.