Edith Wardale
Edith Wardale | |
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Born | Edith Elizabeth Wardale 6 March 1863 |
Died | 27 February 1943 | (aged 79)
Nationality | British |
Title | Dr. |
Edith Elizabeth Wardale (6 March 1863 – 27 February 1943) was a British philologist and literary scholar. She earned a first class degree and an early doctorate. She taught at
Life
Wardale was born in Orcheston in 1863. She lived in the parish named Orcheston St Mary, where her father, John Wardale, was the rector. Her mother was Susannah Jennings Gay.[1]
She initially entered Oxford University via St Margarets Hall but within a year she moved
She studied the phonology of a psalter created by the German scholar Notker Labeo and in 1892 the University of Zurich conferred a doctorate on her in recognition of this work.[1]
Wardale was the first woman to serve on the medieval and modern languages and literature faculty board in 1921. In 1923 she was a supporter of
She was Oxford's first woman examiner in English in 1925.[1]
In 1936, to mark 50 years since
She wrote An Introduction to Middle English in 1937.[4] Two years later she became of a Doctor of Letters.[1]
Wardale died in Oxford in 1943.[1]
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- required.)
- ^ Henry Lamb RA (1883-1960) People and Portraits – catalogue (PDF). Messums.
- ISBN 978-1-317-21727-5.