Lynsey Hanley

British writer and academic

Lynsey Hanley (born 12 April 1976) is a British writer and academic.

Columnist
author

Biography

Hanley was born in Birmingham and grew up on a council estate in the suburb of Chelmsley Wood.^[1] She studied English at Queen Mary University of London.^[2]

Hanley is a visiting fellow in cultural history at Liverpool John Moores University. She is the author of Estates: an Intimate History and Respectable: Crossing the Class Divide, and is also a regular contributor to The Guardian. A frequent theme of Hanley's work is social mobility, often based on her own journey from a working-class background to attending university and becoming a writer.^[3]

As of 2023 she lives in Liverpool.^[4]

Bibliography

Estates: an Intimate History (2007)
Respectable: Crossing the Class Divide (2016)

References

^ Hanley, Lynsey (2017). Respectable: Crossing the Class Divide. Penguin. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-141-04061-5.
^ Hanley 2017, p. 130.
^ Lewis, Tim (17 April 2016). "Lynsey Hanley interview: 'The idea that you could write books was just crackers'". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
^ Hanley, Lynsey (31 December 2022). "Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes … because I live just around the corner". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 April 2023.