Monica Blackett

Friends from HW 's time at Somerville included Maude Clarke , whom she had known as a child and whose Oxford position had been one of the incentives to go there, and archaelogist Helen Lorimer

After Oxford (where she gave the lectures which launched her scholarly career), HW applied for various academic jobs, which her biographer Monica Blackett considers it lucky she did not get. (Many of these jobs included...

HW 's sister preserved all her letters, and a chaotic mass of other manuscript material. Meg would have burned these if Monica Blackett had not wished to use them in her biography.HW 's...

Helen Waddell translated Lyrics from the Chinese, published this year as her first book.

This work arose out of the W. P. Ker Lecture which HW delivered at Glasgow University on 28 October 1947, after a year's delay from the date at first proposed. Monica Blackett includes the text...