Katherine Duncan-Jones

Standard Name: Duncan-Jones, Katherine

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Anna Brownell Jameson
Critic Samuel Schoenbaum wrote contemptuously of this book in Shakespeare 's Lives, 1970, while getting its title wrong and offering a simplistic account of ABJ 's life. He ascribes her choice of subject to...
Literary responses Charlotte Stopes
CS 's fame has been largely obscured by that of her daughter Marie . Her contribution as a Shakespearean scholar, however, along with the question of its denigration by male scholars, has been taken up...

Timeline

By November 2017: Classical scholar Emily Wilson (daughter...

Women writers item

By November 2017

Classical scholar Emily Wilson (daughter and grand-daughter of English-literature scholars Katherine Duncan-Jones and Elsie Duncan-Jones ) became the first woman ever to translate the whole of Homer 's Odyssey into English.

Texts

Sidney, Sir Philip. “Editorial Materials”. Miscellaneous Prose of Sir Philip Sidney, edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones and Jan Van Dorsten, Clarendon Press, 1973, p. various pages.
Duncan-Jones, Katherine. “Why Have So Few Women Written on Shakespeare?”. Early Modern Lives: Biography and Autobiography, Renaissance and Seventeenth Century Conference, London.