Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Elsie Duncan-Jones
Standard Name: Duncan-Jones, Elsie
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By November 2017: Classical scholar Emily Wilson (daughter...
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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.