Frances A. Yates (1899–1981)
Author of The Art of Memory
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- Canonical name
- Yates, Frances A.
- Legal name
- Yates, Frances Amelia
- Birthdate
- 1899-11-28
- Date of death
- 1981-09-29
- Burial location
- Claygate Churchyard, Claygate, Surrey, UK
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
- Place of death
- Claygate, Surrey, England, UK
- Places of residence
- London, England, UK
- Education
- University College London (BA | 1924 | MA | 1926 | D.Litt | 1965)
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- historian
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professor - Organizations
- Warburg Institute, University of London
- Awards and honors
- Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire (1977)
Fellow, British Academy (1967)
Wolfson History Award (1973)
Member, Order of the British Empire (1972)
Foreign Member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1980)
Mary Crawshaw Prize (1935) (show all 11)
Marion Reilly Award (1943)
Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1975)
Premio Galilio Galilie (1978)
Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Fellow, Warburg Institute - Short biography
- Frances A. Yates received a master's degree in French theatre from London University in 1926. She taught at North London Collegiate School until 1939. A small inheritance from her father gave her the freedom to conduct some independent study and at some point she discovered forgotten documents in the London Public Records Office about the late 16th-century linguist and translator John Florio. In 1934, she published her first book, John Florio: the Life of an Italian in Shakespeare's England, which laid the groundwork for the rest of her prize-winning career as a scholar of the Renaissance. She also taught at the Warburg Institute of the University of London for many years.
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