Rosemary Woolf
Rosemary Woolf | |
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| Born | 27 December 1925 |
| Died | 13 April 1978 (aged 52) |
| Alma mater | Somerville College |
| Parent(s) | Gladys Capua Woolf and C. M. Woolf |
Rosemary Estelle Woolf (27 December 1925 – 13 April 1978) was an English scholar of medieval literature, known especially for her work on medieval English religious lyrics, The English Religious Lyric in the Middle Ages.[1]
Biography
Woolf was the daughter of British film executive
Oxford University in 1961, teaching Old and Middle English literature and the history of the English language.[3]
She is commemorated in the Rosemary Woolf Fellowship at Somerville, which was established through a legacy from Lotte Labowsky (1905-1991).[4]
Notes
- ^ Hughes 206.
- ISBN 9780815328902.
- ISBN 9780299207502.
- ^ O'Donnell, Kate (2017). "Lotte Labowsky:exiled German scholar, valued Somervillian" (PDF). Somerville Magazine: 10–11. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
References
- Hughes, Geoffrey (2006). "God's Wounds". An Encyclopedia of Swearing: The Social History of Oaths, Profanity, Foul Language, And Ethnic Slurs in the English-speaking World. M.E. Sharpe. pp. 205–206. ISBN 9780765612311.
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