Rhoda Sutherland

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Rhoda Sutherland (born 1907 in Atherstone ; † January 6, 1989 ) was a British Romance philologist .

life and work

Rhoda Clarke graduated from Nuneaton High School for Girls in 1925 . In 1929 she became a lecturer, then tutor, and in 1935 a fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. In 1938 she married the Oxford librarian Donald Sutherland. In 1971 she retired.

Works

  • (Ed. Together with Will Moore and Enid Starkie) The French Mind. Studies in honor of Gustave Rudler , Oxford 1952
  • The language of the troubadours, in: French Studies 10, 1956, pp. 199-215
  • The love meditation in courtly literature, in: Studies in medieval French. Presented to Alfred Ewert in honor of his seventieth birthday , Oxford 1961, pp. 165–193

literature

  • Joseph Cremona in: French Studies 43, 1989, pp. 373–374 ( PDF )
  • 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
personal data
SURNAME Sutherland, Rhoda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Romance philologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Atherstone
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1989