Emily Wilson

Standard Name: Wilson, Emily

Connections

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Literary responses Pat Barker
Wilson , in a deeply appreciative review, called this novel brilliant . . . . an important, powerful, memorable book. Although judging that Barker falters occasionally in her grasp of the archaic setting, she praises...

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.
Mason, Wyatt. “The First Woman to Translate the ’Odyssey’ Into English”. The New York Times Magazine, 2 Nov. 2017.

Texts

Wilson, Emily. “The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker review—a feminist Iliad”. theguardian.com.