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Rose Mary Crawshay Prize
The Rose Mary Crawshay Prize is a literary prize for female scholars, inaugurated in 1888 by the British Academy. Description The prize, set up in 1888, is said by the British Academy to be the only UK literary prize specifically for female scholars. Two prizes can be awarded in any year, each "to a woman of any nationality who, in the judgement of the Council of the British Academy, has written or published within three years next preceding the year of the award an historical or critical work of sufficient value on any subject connected with English Literature, preference being given to a work regarding one of the poets Byron, Shelley and Keats". The prize is now "only" £500, but it provides a valuable recognition for non-fiction women writers. It has been awarded since 1916 by the British Academy. The prize was established by Rose Mary Crawshay as the Byron, Shelley, Keats in Memoriam Prize Fund. Winners Winners of the award have been: [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Academy
The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars spanning all disciplines across the humanities and social sciences and a funding body for research projects across the United Kingdom. The academy is a self-governing and independent registered charity, based at 10–11 Carlton House Terrace in London. The British Academy is funded with an annual grant from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). In 2014–15, the British Academy's total income was £33,100,000, including £27,000,000 from BIS. £32,900,000 was distributed during the year in research grants, awards and charitable activities. Purposes The academy states that it has five fundamental purposes: * To speak up for the humanities and the social sciences * To invest in the very best researchers and research * To i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joyce M
Joyce may refer to: People * Joyce (name), list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname * Joyce, (born 1948), Brazilian singer-songwriter * James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish modernist writer Places * Joyce, Washington, an unincorporated community in the United States * Mount Joyce, Victoria Land, Antarctica * Joyce Peak, Ross Island, off the coast of Victoria Land * Joyce Glacier, Victoria Land * Lake Joyce, Victoria Land * Joyce Country, a region in counties Galway and Mayo in Ireland * 5418 Joyce, a main-belt asteroid Business * Joyce, house brand of Hong Kong company Joyce Boutique * JB Joyce & Co, an English clockmaker * Joyces 365, a supermarket chain based in Galway, Ireland * Amstrad PCW personal computer, sold under license in Europe as the "Joyce" Other uses * Hurricane Joyce (other), multiple storms * USS ''Joyce'' (DE-317), a destroyer escort that served in World War II * Joyce (programming language) * Joyce Theater, in the Manhatt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hildegard Schumann
Hildegard Schumann (August 31, 1907, Epping – March 16, 1986, Rostock) was a German scholar of English and American studies, and a specialist in the works of John Steinbeck. She was a winner of the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize (1935). Life Hildegard Edith Schumann was born in Epping, England, to Edith and Walther D. Schumann, a commercial clerk. The family returned to Germany and Schumann finished her secondary education in Hamburg, graduating from the University of Hamburg in English, German and art history in 1932. She received a scholarship to Bedford College, London (1928–1929). Back in Hamburg, she submitted her dissertation ''Die romantischen Elemente bei John Keats - Sein Verhältnis zu Mittelalter und Antike'' (''The Romantic Elements in John Keats' Writings'') in 1934, which won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize the following year. She taught languages at the Berlitz School in Hamburg for a year, and in 1936, emigrated to England, being politically opposed to the Nazi governm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanna Foà
Giovanna Foà (May 27, 1910, Milan – December 1997, Milan) was an Italian scholar and translator, and a Professor of English at the Bocconi University, Milan. She was a winner of the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize (1934) for her work ''Lord Byron, Poeta e Carbonaro''. Life Giovanna Foà was born in Milan to Dino Foà and Ester Rouf, one of four children. She graduated in Literature at the University of Milan in 1933, followed by a diploma in English in 1934. Her thesis on Italian influences on Byron and his own association with the conspirators ''Carbonari'' won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize (1934), and was published the following year. As a Jew, she was expelled from teaching at the Liceo Scientifico in Pisa, whereupon she went into exile in France and then to England, where she remained throughout the Second World War. From 1939-40 to 1945 she was an announcer on Radio London. She maintained contact with English women's associations, especially the British Federation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleanore Boswell
Eleanore Boswell (also known as Eleanor Boswell; Eleanore Boswell Murrie; 4 August 1897, Philadelphia – 4 August 1966, Edinburgh) was an American scholar of English literature specialising in the Elizabethan, Commonwealth and Restoration periods. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in the Humanities (1930) and a winner of the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize (1933). Life Eleanore Boswell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended the Germantown High School and the Philadelphia High School for Girls, and joined Bryn Mawr College in 1917 to study English and Greek. She graduated ''magna cum laude'' in 1921. The same year, she received a European Fellowship to study for a year at Bedford College, London. She returned to Bryn Mawr for her master's degree, which was awarded in 1923. Boswell taught English at Rosemary Hall from 1923 and 1925. She was an executive secretary of the American Association of University Women from 1925 to 1927. In 1930, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Darbishire
Helen Darbishire, (1881–1961) was an English literary scholar, who was Principal of Somerville College, Oxford, from 1931 until her retirement in 1945.'Obituary: Miss Helen Darbishire, former principal of Somerville College', ''The Guardian'', 13 March 1961 Life Helen Darbishire was born in Oxford, the daughter of Samuel Dukinfield Darbishire, a physician at the Radcliffe Infirmary. She was educated at Oxford Girls' High School before going as a scholar to Somerville College, Oxford, where she graduated first-class in English in 1903. After being a visiting lecturer at Royal Holloway College, she returned to Somerville as a tutor in English in 1908. She was the first woman to be chair of the faculty board of English at Oxford University. In 1925-6 she held a visiting professorship at Wellesley College. On her return to Oxford she was appointed university lecturer. In 1931 she succeeded Margery Fry as principal of Somerville, resigning her university lectureship (though cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet G
Janet may refer to: Names * Janet (given name) * Janet (French singer) (1939–2011) Surname * Charles Janet (1849–1932), French engineer, inventor and biologist, known for the Left Step periodic table * Jules Janet (1861–1945), French psychologist and psychotherapist * Maurice Janet (1888–1983), French mathematician * Paul Janet (1823–1899), French philosopher and writer * Pierre Janet (1859–1947), French psychologist, philosopher and psychotherapist * Roberto Janet (born 1986), Cuban hammer thrower Other uses * Janet, Alberta, a Canadian hamlet * Janet (airline), a military transport fleet known for servicing the US Air Force "Area 51" facility * JANET, a high-speed network for the UK research and education community * ''Janet'' (album), by Janet Jackson * ''Janet'' (video), a video compilation by Janet Jackson * Janet, a character in the TV series ''The Good Place'' * Hurricane Janet, 1955 * Janet, a character in the video game ''Brawl Stars ''Brawl Stars'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamburlaine
''Tamburlaine the Great'' is a play in two parts by Christopher Marlowe. It is loosely based on the life of the Central Asian emperor Timur (Tamerlane/Timur the Lame, d. 1405). Written in 1587 or 1588, the play is a milestone in Elizabethan public drama; it marks a turning away from the clumsy language and loose plotting of the earlier Tudor dramatists, and a new interest in fresh and vivid language, memorable action, and intellectual complexity. Along with Thomas Kyd's ''The Spanish Tragedy'', it may be considered the first popular success of London's public stage. Marlowe, generally considered the best of that group of writers known as the University Wits, influenced playwrights well into the Jacobean period, and echoes of the bombast and ambition of ''Tamburlaine''s language can be found in English plays all the way to the Puritan closing of the theatres in 1642. While ''Tamburlaine'' is considered inferior to the great tragedies of the late-Elizabethan and early-Jacobean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (; baptised 26 February 156430 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe is among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights. Based upon the "many imitations" of his play ''Tamburlaine,'' modern scholars consider him to have been the foremost dramatist in London in the years just before his mysterious early death. Some scholars also believe that he greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was baptised in the same year as Marlowe and later succeeded him as the pre-eminent Elizabethan playwright. Marlowe was the first to achieve critical reputation for his use of blank verse, which became the standard for the era. His plays are distinguished by their overreaching protagonists. Themes found within Marlowe's literary works have been noted as humanistic with realistic emotions, which some scholars find difficult to reconcile with Marlowe's "anti-intellectualism" and his caterin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Una Ellis-Fermor
Una Mary Ellis-Fermor (20 December 1894 – 24 March 1958), who also used the pseudonym Christopher Turnley, was an English literary critic, author and Hildred Carlile Professor of English at Bedford College, London (1947–1958). In recognition of her services to London University, there is now an award in her name to provide assistance for research students in the publication of scholarly work, in the fields of English, Irish or Scandinavian drama to which Fermor-Ellis herself had been a notable contributor. She has been described as "A major contributor to the study of the English Renaissance". Biography Educated at South Hampstead High School, Ellis-Fermor gained an exhibition award to read English at Somerville College, Oxford. Here she met and developed a friendly scholarly rivalry with fellow exhibitioner Vera Brittain. In 1918 Ellis-Fermor became a lecturer in English Literature at Bedford College, and in 1930 was awarded the Rose Mary Crawshay prize for English Literatur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hope Emily Allen
Hope Emily Allen (1883–1960), was an American scholar of medieval history who is best known for her research on the 14th-century English mystic Richard Rolle and for her discovery of a manuscript of the Book of Margery Kempe. Early life and education Hope Emily Allen was born in Kenwood, Madison County, New York, on November 12, 1883. Her parents, Henry Grosvenor Allen and Portia Allen (born Underhill), had previously lived for a time in the Oneida Community, an experimental group based on socialist principles that broke up in 1880. Allen spent much of her life living on property that originally belonged to the community. She also lived in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, attending Niagara Falls (Ontario) Collegiate. Allen undertook her undergraduate studies at Bryn Mawr College, with special interests in the study of Middle English literary texts, taught by medievalist Carleton Brown. She graduated in 1905 as one of "The Ten" top scholars. The next year she completed gradua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
