Beatrice White

Beatrice Mary Irene White (6 July 1902 – 30 March 1986) was a British literary scholar. She had a long association with Westfield College and the English Association.

Life White was born in Ely in 1902. In 1919 she started her studies at King's College, London and four years later she graduated with a first class honours degree in English. Three years after that she obtained her master's degree at King's with a thesis about the life and works of the English poet Alexander Barclay. She dedicated this book to Professor A. W. Reed who had supervised her master's degree.

She had spent nine years at King's, but she left when she was awarded a fellowship that enabled her to study in California. She visited both Stanford University and the Henry E. Huntington Library returning to England in 1931.

In 1952 she began a long association with "The Year's Work in English Studies", a bibliography published by the English Association. For four years she co-edited the annual work with Frederick S. Boas and then for the next ten years she was the sole editor until 1963.