Marilyn Butler
Marilyn Speers Butler | |
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Born | Marilyn Speers Evans 11 February 1937 Coombe, Kingston upon Thames, England |
Died | 11 March 2014 Oxford, England | (aged 77)
Nationality | British |
Occupation | Literary critic |
Notable work | Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography (1972) |
Spouse | Sir David Butler (m. 1962) |
Children | 3 |
Parent |
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Awards | Rose Mary Crawshay Prize |
Marilyn Speers Butler, Lady Butler,
Biography
Marilyn Speers Evans was born in Coombe, Kingston upon Thames, on 11 February 1937. Her father, Sir Trevor Maldwyn Evans was a journalist and her mother was Margaret Speers "Madge" Evans (née Gribbin). At the age of two, she was evacuated with her mother and elder brother to New Quay in Wales, where she remained until the end of World War II.[3] She was educated at Wimbledon High School and St Hilda's College, Oxford,[4] graduating with a first-class degree in English in 1958. She became a school teacher, but in 1960 joined the BBC as a journalist. On 3 March 1962, she married David Butler; the couple had three sons.[3]
After she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2004, Butler's health declined and she died at Headington Care Home, Oxford, on 11 March 2014 as a result of a respiratory tract infection.[1][3]
Career
In the early 1960s, Butler left journalism, and returned to academia, completing her doctoral thesis in 1966 in Oxford. She received a research fellowship at
In June 2003, Butler was awarded an honorary degree from the Open University as Doctor of the University.[5] She was a Fellow of the British Academy.[citation needed]
Works
Books
- Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography (1972)
- Jane Austen and the War of Ideas (1975)
- Romantics, Rebels, and Reactionaries: English Literature and Its Background, 1760–1830 (1982)
- Mapping Mythologies: Countercurrents in Eighteenth-Century British Poetry and Cultural History (2015)
Edited books
- Frankenstein: 1818 text (Oxford World's Classics, 1994, rpt 1998, 2008)
References
- ^ a b Mullan, John (13 March 2014). "Marilyn Butler obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
- ^ ISBN 9781785904394.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
- ^ British Academy: The British Academy Book Prize - Judging Panel Archived 2007-12-19 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Honorary graduate cumulative list" (PDF). open.ac.uk. Retrieved 23 November 2018.