Mildred K. Pope
Mildred Katherine Pope (born January 28, 1872 in Paddock Wood , Kent , † 1956 in Garford ) was a British novelist.
life and work
Pope graduated from school in 1888, studied for a year in Leipzig, taught at the school and from 1891 studied French at Somerville College in Oxford, remotely supervised by Paget Toynbee (1855-1932) from Cambridge. After completing her studies (1893) and staying in Heidelberg (with Fritz Neumann ), she was a librarian (until 1899), then a modern language tutor (until 1934) at Somerville College, went to Paris in 1902 to study (with Gaston Paris and Paul Meyer ) and received her doctorate there in 1904 with Étude sur la langue de frère Angier, suivie d'un glossaire de ses poèmes, thèse présentée à la Faculté des lettres de Paris, pour le doctorat de l'Université (Paris 1903).
Pope was involved in Oxford as a women's rights activist. During the World War she did social work in France. When the women became full members of the university in 1920, she taught temporarily at the Taylor Institution, the Faculty of European Languages. In 1928 she became a reader at Oxford (succeeding Edwin George Ross Waters , who took over the Romance department). After Waters' death in 1930, she was not given the chair, but Alfred Ewert . Pope taught at the same hour as Ewert, occasionally on the same subjects. From 1934 to 1940 she held the chair for Romance Philology in Manchester (as successor to John Orr , 1885 to 1966, and colleague of Eugène Vinaver , 1899 to 1979). Her successor there was TBW Reid (1901–1981). Her students included Mary Dominica Legge (1905-1986) and Dorothy L. Sayers , who set her a monument in the novel Gaudy Night (1935).
Pope is best known for her book From Latin to modern French with especial consideration of Anglonorman, phonology and morphology (Manchester 1934, 2nd edition 1952, 1973). She was an Honorary Fellow of Somerville (1935) and an honorary doctorate from the University of Bordeaux (1939), the first female honorary doctorate in France.
Other works
- The Anglo-Norman element in our vocabulary, its significance for our civilization: the Philip Maurice Deneke lecture delivered at Lady Margaret Hall , Oxford, on May 2, 1944, Manchester 1944
- (Ed. Together with Thomas Bertram Wallace Reid) The romance of Horn by Thomas , Oxford 1955–1964
literature
- Studies in French language and mediaeval literature presented to Professor Mildred K. Pope by pupils, colleagues and friends , Manchester 1939, 1969 (with biography and list of publications)
- Rebecca Posner: Romance Linguistics in Oxford 1840-1940, in: Lingua et Traditio. History of linguistics and recent philologies. Festschrift for Hans Helmut Christmann for his 65th birthday , ed. by Richard Baum, Klaus Böckle, Franz Josef Hausmann and Franz Lebsanft, Tübingen 1994, pp. 375–383
- Elspeth Kennedy: Mildred K. Pope (1872–1956) Anglo-Norman Scholar, in: Women medievalists and the Academy , ed. by Jane Chance, Madison 2005, pp. 147-156
- Mitzi M. Brunsdale: Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) Medieval Mystery Maker, in: Women medievalists and the Academy , ed. by Jane Chance, Madison 2005, pp. 423-440
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| SURNAME | Pope, Mildred K. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pope, Mildred Katherine (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Romance philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paddock Wood , Kent |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1956 |
| Place of death | Garford |