Rachel Trickett
Non-fiction writer, college head and academic
About Rachel Trickett
Lived 1923 – 1999 (aged 75). Rachel Trickett was a British academic, literary scholar, college head and non-fiction writer.
Mabel Rachel Trickett (20 December 1923 – 24 June 1999), known as Rachel Trickett, was an English novelist, non‑fiction writer, literary scholar, and a British academic; she was Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford, for nearly twenty years, between 1973 and 1991.
Early life and education Trickett's father was a postman.
Other work Trickett was the author of the novels The Return Home (London, Constable & Co., 1952) and The Course of Love (London, Constable & Co., 1954). Her The Honest Muse: A Study in Augustan Verse was published by Clarendon Press, Oxford, in 1967.
Michael Gearin-Tosh wrote in her obituary for The Independent that "she had a wicked eye for the conceit of academics, their insularity and devious manipulations", an attitude which made her a soul‑mate of Erich Heller.
Legacy The Rachel Trickett Building at St Hugh's College is named in her honour.
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Who was Rachel Trickett?
non-fiction writer, college head and academic
When was Rachel Trickett born?
Rachel Trickett was born on 20 December 1923.
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Rachel Trickett died on 24 June 1999 in Oxford.
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Rachel Trickett was an academic, literary scholar, college head and non-fiction writer.
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Rachel Trickett was British.
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