Mary Lascelles (1900–1995)
Author of Jane Austen and Her Art
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- Canonical name
- Lascelles, Mary
- Legal name
- Lascelles, Mary Madge
- Birthdate
- 1900-02-07
- Date of death
- 1995-12-10
- Gender
- female
- Education
- Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University (BA|1922|B.Litt|1926)
Sherborne School for Girls, Dorset, UK - Occupations
- literary scholar
professor
memoirist
literary critic
poet - Organizations
- University of Oxford
Royal Holloway College, University of London - Awards and honors
- Fellow, British Academy (1962)
Rose Mary Crawshay Prize (1940, 1980) - Relationships
- Lascelles, Daniel (brother)
- Short biography
- Mary (Madge) Lascelles was the granddaughter of Henry Thynne Lascelles, 4th Earl of Harewood. She never married. She graduated from Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford and became a tutor in English and literature at Somerville College for almost three decades (1931–1960). She also served as a vice-principal. She was elected to the British Academy in 1962. Her insistence on proper English, and her high standards of politeness, punctuality and integrity were well-known and made her as formidable as her scholarship. Among her other works, she was the author of a privately printed Memoir in 1989.
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Granada, British West Indies
- Places of residence
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Place of death
- Cromer, Norfolk, England, UK
- Associated Place (for map)
- England, UK
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- Works
- 5
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- 8
- Members
- 85
- Popularity
- #214,930
- Rating
- 4.2
- ISBNs
- 12