Suzanne Fagence Cooper is a British non-fiction writer who has written extensively on the Pre-Raphaelites and Victorian women.

Education and career

Fagence Cooper received a BA in history from Oxford University and spent 12 years as a curator of the Victorian collections at the Victoria & Albert Museum^[1] where she co-curated The Victorian Vision exhibition in 2001. She is an honorary visiting fellow of the University of York.^[2]

As well as writing, Fagence Cooper is a design consultant and has worked with the BBC and Channel 4 and was a historical consultant for the 2013 film The Invisible Woman. She was a contributor to Fred Dibnah's World of Steam, Steel and Stone for BBC television, including providing a factual, historical perspective on the way Victorian lives can be presented in museums. She is also a Companion of the Guild of St George.

Personal life

Fagence Cooper lives near York and is married to John Cooper. They have two daughters, Rosalind and Beatrice.

Selected publications

• Victorians at Home and Abroad. London: V & A Publications, 2001. ISBN 1851773290 (With Paul Atterbury)
• The Victorian Woman. London: V & A Publications, 2001. ISBN 1851773304
• Pre-raphaelite Art in the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: V & A Publications, 2003. ISBN 1851773932
• The Model Wife: Effie, Ruskin and Millais. London, Gerald Duckworth & Co., 2010. ISBN 0715638645
• Effie: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin and John Everett Millais. St. Martin's Press, 2011.