Rosemary 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 C. M. Woolf. She was the first woman in her family to attend university, receiving a B.Litt. from St Hugh's College, Oxford in 1949. She became a lecturer at the University College of Hull in 1948.^[2] She became a lecturer in English at Somerville College, 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

1. Hughes 206.
2. Spevack-Hussman, Helga (1995). "Rosemary Woolf (1925-1978)". In Helen Damico (ed.). Medieval Scholarship: Literature and Philology. Taylor & Francis. pp. 439–. ISBN 9780815328902.
3. Boro, Joyce (2005). "Rosemary Estelle Wolf (1925-1978): A Serious Scholar". In Jane Chance (ed.). Women Medievalists And The Academy. U of Wisconsin P. pp. 825–38. ISBN 9780299207502.
4. 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.