Elsie Duncan-Jones
Elsie Elizabeth Duncan-Jones (née Phare; 2 July 1908 - 7 April 2003) was a British literary scholar and authority on the poet Andrew Marvell.
She married in 1933 the philosopher Austin Duncan-Jones; they had two children, the ancient historian Richard Duncan-Jones, and the Shakespeare scholar Katherine Duncan-Jones.
Works
- The poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins; a survey and commentary, 1933
- 'Ash Wednesday', in Balachandra Rajan, ed., T.S. Eliot, a study of his writings by several hands, 1947
- The poems and letters of Andrew Marvell, 1971
- A great master of words : some aspects of Marvell's poems of praise and blame, 1975
References
- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/elsie-duncanjones-730235.html Obituary, the Independent
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1428028/Elsie-Duncan-Jones.html Obituary, the Daily Telegraph.
- W. H. Kelliher, ‘Duncan-Jones, Elsie Elizabeth (1908–2003)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Jan 2007; online edn, Oct 2008 (subscription required)
External links
- Works by or about Elsie Duncan-Jones in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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