Yvonne Noble

Yvonne Noble (born February 6, 1935) is an American literary scholar and editor. A 1970 Guggenheim Fellow, she edited two books on The Beggar's Opera, as well as a volume of Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack annual issues. She was a professor at University of Pennsylvania and University of Illinois and a co-founder of the Women's Studies Group 1558–1837.

Biography Yvonne Noble was born on February 6, 1935, in Pittsburgh. she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship "for a study of the imaginative influence of Paradise Lost upon certain major 18th century writers". She also co-founded the Women's Studies Group 1558–1837. She later edited another volume on The Beggar's Opera, Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Beggar's Opera: A Collection of Critical Essays, which was published by Prentice Hall in 1975. She was a member of the Modern Language Association.

Originally a native of "a small town [...] four miles from Clairton, Pennsylvania", she later moved to England with her husband and two children.