Dr. Linda Hughes has been selected as the 2012 winner of the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Association Award for Contributions to the Study of British Women Writers. This award is given to eminent scholars whose work is internationally recognized as pioneering and integral to the study of women writers, whose work has influenced more than one generation of scholars and most importantly, to scholars who provide mentorship to not just their own graduate students but also generously mentor many  junior scholars in the field.