Kathleen Teresa Blake Butler (born

Bardsea Bardsea is a village in the ''Low Furness'' area of Cumbria, England. It is two miles to the south-east of Ulverston on the northern coast of Morecambe Bay. It is in the historic county of Lancashire. History Bardsea, or ''Berretseige'', is m ...

, 26 September 1883 – died

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, 2 May 1950) was an academic specialising in

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. Butler was educated at

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. She was on the staff of the

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from 1913 to 1915 when she returned to Cambridge as a

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of Girton. She was a

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from 1915 to 1942; Director of Studies in Modern Languages from 1917 to 1938; University Lecturer in Italian from 1926 to 1949; Vice-Mistress of Girton from 1936 to 38; and Mistress of Girton from 1942 to 1949. Her publications included "A History of French Literature" (1923); "Les Premières Lettres de Guez de Balzac" (1934); and "Tredici novelle modern" (1946).

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Saturday 16 February 2019 Her sister,

Eliza Marian Butler Eliza Marian Butler (29 December 1885 – 13 November 1959), who published as E. M. Butler and Elizabeth M. Butler, was an English scholar of German, Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge from 1945. Her most influential book ...

, was an academic specialising in the

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1883 births 1950 deaths Academics of Royal Holloway, University of London Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge Fellows of Girton College, Cambridge Mistresses of Girton College, Cambridge Deaths from kidney failure Linguists from England Women linguists People from Furness {{UCambridge-stub