Welcome to my Website!

It integrates my personal profile (Jana - nee Widdows) with my professional profile (Dowson)

See also http://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/academic-staff/art-design-humanities/jane-dowson/jane-dowson.aspx

‘'Jane Dowson is a considerable critic, exceptional in the clarity, range and originality of her work. Women, Modernism and British Poetry, 1910-1939: Resisting Femininity (2002), Women's Writing 1945-1960: After the Deluge (2003) and the Cambridge University Press A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry (with Alice Entwistle, 2005) are volumes which scrupulously trace and develop contexts and re-evaluate the work of a range of key writers, providing a coherent and continuous account of the many threads in a rapidly developing tradition. In terms of her methodologies Jane Dowson is at once consistent and original, and her collaborative work, too, is exemplary. The writing stands out in part for its resolving clarity, in part for its readability. I take Dr Dowson to be among the more significant writers on modern and contemporary poetry, and certainly one of the most comprehensively informed.’ (Professor Michael Schmidt, University of Glasgow; editor, Carcanet Press and Poetry Nation Review. Reference for British Academy grant, 2006)