Judith Lewis

Judith S Lewis was born in Patchogue, NY, and went on to earn her BA at Vassar College, and her Ph.D in History at the Johns Hopkins University. She is the Edna Hoffman Bowman Presidential Professor of History, Emerita, at the University of Oklahoma, where she was the first woman to earn tenure in the Dept of History. She is the author of In the Family Way: Childbearing in the British Aristocracy, 1760-1860, and Sacred to Female Patriotism: Gender, Class and Politics in Late Georgian Britain. Her latest book is The Country House at War: A Story of Loss, Reinvention, and the Birth of a New Britain.