Mildred K. Pope
Mildred Katherine Pope (28 January 1872 – 16 September 1956) was an
Biography
Mildred Pope was educated at
In 1902-3 she spent a sabbatical year working in Paris under Gaston Paris and Paul Meyer,[2] gaining a doctoral degree from the University of Paris in 1904, with a dissertation on Frère Angier.[5]
Given Oxford's policy on admitting women she was not granted a degree from Oxford until after World War I.[6] She was appointed lecturer, then university reader (in 1928—the first woman at Oxford to achieve that position[3]), and became vice-principal of Somerville in 1929.[5] She left Oxford for Manchester in 1934 and was later honored with emeritate.[7] At the University of Manchester, she was appointed professor of French language and romance philology. In 1939, she became the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from a French university, in her case the University of Bordeaux.[3] After her death in 1956, The Oxford Magazine, in an obituary, called her one of Somerville's "oldest, most distinguished and well-loved members."[7]
Legacy
Pope taught a number of notable medievalists including
Works
- Life of the Black Prince, By Eleanor C. Lodge.
- From Latin to modern French, with especial consideration of Anglo-Norman; phonology and morphology, 1934
- (ed. with T. Atkinson Jenkins, J. M. Manly and Jean G. Wright) La seinte resureccion from the Paris and Canterbury mss,Oxford, Pub. for the Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1943
- The Anglo-Norman element in our vocabulary: its significance for our civilization, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1944
- (ed.) The romance of Horn, 2 vols., Oxford: Pub. for the Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1955-64.
References
- ^ Philip E. Bennett (2004). "Pope, Mildred Katherine (1872–1956)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- ^ The Manchester Guardian, 18 September 1956
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8265-1610-7.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/93709. Retrieved 29 October 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ ISBN 978-0-299-20750-2.
- ^ _____, "MA Degree for Seventeen Women Tutors". Yorkshire Post, 27 October 1920. 5.
- ^ a b "Mildred Katherine Pope". The Oxford Magazine. 1956. p. 180. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
- ISBN 978-0-7190-0550-3.
- ^ Short, Ian (2007), Manual of Anglo-Norman, London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, p. vii.
- ^ Chandos Herald, a. 1350-1380., Lodge, E. C., Pope, M. K. (Mildred Katharine). (1910). Life of the Black Prince. Oxford: Clarendon press.