Phyllis Hartnoll (22 September 1906, in
Egypt
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– 8 January 1997, in
Lyme Regis
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) was a British poet, author and editor.
Hartnoll was educated at
Cheltenham Ladies' College
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and read English at
St Hugh's College, Oxford
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,
[Jack Readin]
"Obituary: Phyllis Hartnoll"
''The Independent'', 25 January 1997 winning the
Newdigate Prize for poetry in 1929, and at the Universities of Lyons and Algiers. From 1929 to 1967, she worked as a books editor for the publishers
Macmillan
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. As a theatre historian, she was a founder member of the Society for Theatre Research in 1948; the other founders contributed to her ''Oxford Companion to the Theatre'', the first edition of which appeared in 1951.
A collection of her poems, ''The maid's song and other poems'', was published by Macmillan in 1938. She wrote the introduction to the
Gothic novel
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''
Zastrozzi
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'' by
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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which was republished in a limited edition by the
Golden Cockerel Press
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History
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in 1955.
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1906 births
1997 deaths
English women poets
People educated at Heathfield School, Ascot
20th-century English women writers
20th-century English poets
British expatriates in Egypt
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