Dominica Legge

Mary Dominica Legge
Born	26 March 1905 Bayswater
Died	10 March 1986 Oxford
Nationality	United Kingdom

Professor (Mary) Dominica Legge (26 March 1905 – 10 March 1986) was a British scholar of the Anglo-Norman language.^[1]

Life

Legge was born in Bayswater in 1905. Her grandfather was Professor James Legge, and her father James Granville Legge was the Director of Education in Liverpool.^[1]

She was a scholar of the Anglo-Norman language. She was a founding member of the Anglo-Norman Text Society.^[1] She was Professor of French (Anglo-Norman Studies) at the University of Edinburgh, 1968-1973 and Professor Emerita after her retirement ^[2] Legge died in Oxford.

Works include

• Anglo-Norman letters and petitions from All Souls. Ms. 182, Oxford 1941
• Le Roman de Balain. A prose romance of the thirteenth century With an introduction by Eugène Vinaver, Manchester 1942
• Anglo-Norman in the cloisters. The influence of the orders upon Anglo-Norman literature, Edinburgh 1950
• Anglo-Norman Literature and its Background (Oxford, 1963)
• with Ruth J. Dean) The Rule of St. Benedict. A Norman prose version, Oxford 1964
• The significance of Anglo-Norman. Inaugural lecture, Edinburgh 1969
• "William the Marshal and Arthur of Brittany", Historical Research, volume 55, 1982

References

1. Jane Chance (2005). Women Medievalists and the Academy. Univ of Wisconsin Press. pp. 613–616. ISBN 978-0-299-20750-2.
2. LEGGE, Prof. (Mary) Dominica, Who Was Who (A&C Black), 2016