Rose Mary Crawshay Prize
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The Rose Mary Crawshay Prize is a literary prize for female scholars. It was inaugurated in 1888 and is stated by the British Academy
to be the only UK literary prize for female scholars. Two prizes can be awarded in any one year: "to a woman of any nationality who, in the judgement of the Council of the British Academy, has written or published within three years next preceding the year of the award an historical or critical work of sufficient value on any subject connected with English Literature, preference being given to a work regarding one of the poets Byron, Shelley
and Keats".
The prize was established by Rose Mary Crawshay
as the Byron, Shelley, Keats In Memoriam Prize Fund.
British Academy
The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national body for the humanities and the social sciences. Its purpose is to inspire, recognise and support excellence in the humanities and social sciences, throughout the UK and internationally, and to champion their role and value.It receives an annual...
to be the only UK literary prize for female scholars. Two prizes can be awarded in any one year: "to a woman of any nationality who, in the judgement of the Council of the British Academy, has written or published within three years next preceding the year of the award an historical or critical work of sufficient value on any subject connected with English Literature, preference being given to a work regarding one of the poets Byron, Shelley
Shelley
-Meaning:In many baby name books, Shelley is listed as meaning "From the meadow on the ledge" or "clearing on a bank". It is Old English in origin. As with many other names , Shelley is today a name given almost exclusively to girls after historically being male...
and Keats".
The prize was established by Rose Mary Crawshay
Rose Mary Crawshay
Rose Mary Crawshay was born Rose Mary Yeates in Berkshire in England.She married Robert Thompson Crawshay in 1846 who was last of the Merthyr Tydfil ironmasters, and became the mistress of Cyfarthfa Castle....
as the Byron, Shelley, Keats In Memoriam Prize Fund.
Winners
| Year | Winner | Book | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1916 | Charlotte Carmichael Stopes Charlotte Carmichael Stopes Charlotte Carmichael Stopes was a British scholar, author, and campaigner for women's rights. She published several books relating to the life and work of William Shakespeare. Her most successful publication was British Freewomen: Their Historical Privilege , a book which influenced and inspired... |
Shakespeare's environment | |
| 1931 | Julia Power | Shelley in American in the 19th Century | |
| 1940 | Mary Lascelles Mary Lascelles Mary Hall was an English gentlewoman whose report of the 'light' behaviour in her youth of Henry VIII's fifth Queen, Katherine Howard initiated the process which ended with Queen Katherine's execution.-Life:... |
Jane Austen and Her Art | |
| 1946 | Caroline Spurgeon Caroline Spurgeon Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon was an English literary critic. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College, Dresden and at King's College London and University College London.-Life:... |
Shakespeare's Imagery and What it Tells Us | |
| 1949 | Rosemond Tuve Rosemond Tuve Rosemond Teresa Marie Tuve was an American scholar of English literature, specializing in Renaissance literature—in particular, Edmund Spenser.-Biography:... |
Elizabethan and Metaphysical Imagery | |
| 1967 | Winifred Gérin Winifred Gérin Winifred Eveleen Gérin, OBE was an English biographer born in Hamburg. She is best known as a biographer of the Brontë sisters and their brother Branwell, whose lives she researched extensively... |
Charlotte Brontë: the Evolution of Genius | ISBN 978-0198811527 |
| 1976 | Hilary Spurling Hilary Spurling Hilary Spurling, CBE, FRSL is a British writer, known as a journalist and biographer. She won the Whitbread Prize for the second volume of her biography of Henri Matisse in January 2006... |
Ivy When Young: The Early Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884-1919 | |
| 1984 | Christine Alexander | The Early Writings of Charlotte Brontë | ISBN 0-631-12991-X |
| Gillian Beer Gillian Beer Dame Gillian Beer, DBE , King Edward VII Professor of English Literature and President, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, is a British literary critic and academic.-Career:... |
Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction | ||
| 1995 | Caroline Franklin | Byron's Heroines | |
| 1996 | Kate Flint | The Woman Reader 1837-1914 | ISBN 978-0198121855 |
| Ruth Smith | Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth Century Thought | ISBN 978-0521023702 | |
| 1997 | Hermione Lee Hermione Lee Hermione Lee, CBE is President of Wolfson College, Oxford and was lately Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature in the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow of New College. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature.-Biography:Hermione Lee grew up in... |
Virginia Wolfe (biography) | ISBN 978-0375701368 |
| 1998 | Moyra Haslett | Byron's Don Juan and the Don Juan Legend | ISBN 978-0198184324 |
| Katie Trumpener Katie Trumpener Katie Trumpener is the Emily Sanford Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Yale University. She received a B.A. in English from the University of Alberta in 1982, an A.M. in English and American Literature from Harvard University in 1983, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from... |
Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire | ISBN 978-0691044804 | |
| 1999 | Elizabet(h) Wright | Psychoanalytic Criticism. A Reappraisal | ISBN 978-0415921459 |
| Karen O'Brien | Narratives of Enlightenment. Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon | ISBN 078-0521619448 | |
| 2000 | Marina Warner | No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock | ISBN 978-0374223014 |
| Joanne Wilkes | Lord Byron and Madame de Staël: Born for Opposition | ISBN 978-1840146998 | |
| 2001 | Annette Peach | Portraits of Byron | |
| Lucy Newlyn | Reading, Writing, and Romanticism: The Anxiety of Reception | ISBN 978-0198187110 | |
| 2002 | Wendy Doniger Wendy Doniger Wendy Doniger is an American Indologist and Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School, the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the Committee on Social Thought... |
The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade | ISBN 978-0226156439 |
| K. Flint | The Victorians and the Visual Imagination | ISBN 978-0521089524 | |
| 2003 | Jane Stabler | Byron, Poetics and History | ISBN 978-0521812412 |
| Claire Tomalin Claire Tomalin Claire Tomalin is an English biographer and journalist. She was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge.She was literary editor of the New Statesman and of the Sunday Times, and has written several noted biographies... |
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self | ISBN 978-0375725531 | |
| 2004 | Maud Ellmann | Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page | ISBN 978-0748617036 |
| Anne Stott | Hannah More: The First Victorian | ISBN 978-0199274888 | |
| 2005 | Claire Preston | Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early Modern Science | ISBN 978-0521837941 |
| Judith Farr with Louise Carter | The Gardens of Emily Dickinson | ISBN 978-0674018297 | |
| 2006 | Rosalind Ballaster | Fabulous Orients: Fictions of the East in England 1662-1785 | ISBN 978-0199234295 |
| 2007 | Susan Oliver | Scott, Byron and the Politics of Cultural Encounter | |
| 2008 | Helen Small Helen Small -Biography:Helen W. Small was awarded a B.A. in English from Victoria University of Wellington and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. She was the recipient of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship from 2001 to 2004.-Published works:... |
The Long Life | ISBN 78-0199229932 |
| 2009 | Frances Wilson | The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth | ISBN 978-0571230471 |
| Molly Mahood | The Poet as Botanist | ISBN 9780521862363 | |
| 2010 | Daisy Hay | Young Romantics | ISBN 0747586276 |