Mary Lascelles

Mary Madge Lascelles (7 February 1900 – 10 December 1995) was a British literary scholar, specialising in Jane Austen, Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, and Walter Scott. She was vice-principal of Somerville College, Oxford, from 1947 to 1960, and a university lecturer then reader in English literature 1960 from to 1967 at the University of Oxford. Her paternal grandfather was Henry Lascelles, 4th Earl of Harewood.

When she was three, her family moved back to England, where they lived successively in Monmouth, Suffolk, and then Norfolk. Her tutor was Janet Spens and she also attended lectures by Walter Raleigh.

Academic career After leaving Oxford, Lascelles was briefly a teacher at St Leonards School, a private school in St Andrews, Scotland.

Honours Lascelles was awarded the 1940 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize by the British Academy for her book, Jane Austen and Her Art (1939). In 1962, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. 1995 reprint

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