Helen Waddell

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Helen Jane Waddell (born May 31, 1889 in Tokyo , † March 5, 1965 in London ) was a Northern Irish writer and translator .

Life

After attending Victoria College for Girls , the daughter of a Presbyterian missionary studied English at Queen's University of Belfast , where she initially obtained a Bachelor of Arts (BA English) in 1911 . After 1912 there with a treatise on the subject of Milton , the Epicurist also has a Master of Arts acquired (MA English), she studied still at Somerville College of Oxford University .

She then began her writing career in 1913 with a translation of Chinese poetry under the title Lyrics from the Chinese . In the following period, after earning a Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) at Somerville College, the drama The Spoiled Buddha: A Play in Two Acts (1919) appeared, followed by her best-known work, The Wandering Scholars (1927). In it she describes the life of the Goliards , the students who wandered around in the Middle Ages and studied clerics in search of a spiritual or secular office. She also worked as a teacher at Bedford College .

After Mediaeval Latin Lyrics (1929), a translation of medieval poems from Latin , she wrote the novel Peter Abelard: A Novel about the life of Petrus Abelardus in 1933 . She last published the Stories from Holy Writ in 1949 . For her literary services, she became a member of the Irish Academy of Letters in 1932 .

Due to a growing disease of her nervous system , she had to quit her writing after 1950.

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  1. ↑ Peter Abelard: A Novel (Google Books)
personal data
SURNAME Waddell, Helen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waddell, Helen Jane (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Northern Irish author and translator
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo , Japan
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1965
Place of death London , England, UK