Kay Heath

Kay Heath is an associate professor of English at Virginia State University. In addition to Aging By The Book, she has published on nineteenth-century aging in Victorian Literature and Culture and Frances Trollope and the Novel of Social Change. Currently, she is working on a project about Victorian women who began writing careers in midlife. Heath was a 2008 recipient of a Mellon Fellowship at the Harry Ransom Center. She received her Ph.D. from Rice University in 2001.