Barbara McGovern

Barbara McGovern

BARBARA McGOVERN (1940–2016) was a professor of English at Ohio State University, Mansfield, where she taught for more than 35 years and was frequently recognized for her outstanding research, teaching, and service. She is the author of Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography and an editor of The Anne Finch Wellesley Manuscript Poems: A Critical Edition. Her writings have appeared in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; Poetry Criticism; British Women Writers; Pope, Swift, and Women Writers; the Victorian Newsletter 72; and more.