Elizabeth Millicent Chilver
Elizabeth Leila Millicent "Sally" Chilver (née Graves; 3 August 1914 – 3 July 2014) was principal of
Background
The only daughter of Philip Perceval Graves and his wife Millicent,[2] Elizabeth Chilver was educated at Benenden School and Somerville College, Oxford,[3] where she was a close friend of Inez Pearn (later to become a novelist and marry Stephen Spender and subsequently – following respective divorces – Charles Madge).[4] She was an historian, political scientist and anthropologist.[5]
Career
Chilver was a journalist from 1937 to 1939. During the
In 1995 and 1996 various Festschrift publications appeared to celebrate her work, especially in the field of Cameroon Studies where she was known as "Mama for Story".[6] In Cameroon she worked closely and published with Phyllis Kaberry.[5]
Personal life
In 1937, she married Richard Clementson Chilver (died 1985),
See also
- Royal Holloway College
References
- ISBN 978-0902194427.
- ^ a b CHILVER, Elizabeth Millicent, (Mrs R C Chilver), Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2011; accessed 29 May 2012.
- ^ a b Archives in London and the M25 area (AIM25) including Higher Education in London Archived 2013-06-24 at the Wayback Machine, 29 May 2012
- ISBN 978-1-9996543-2-0.
- ^ a b c Higher magazine, Royal Holloway & Bedford College, Issue 20, December 2014
- ^ Online: 'Mama for Story' and Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford (JASO) Voume 26, No.1 July 1995.
- ^ "CHILVER, Richard Clementson profile, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 30 May 2012.
