Edith Elizabeth Wardale was a British philologist and literary scholar.
13 Facts About Edith Wardale
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Edith Wardale earned a first class degree and an early doctorate.
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Edith Wardale taught at St Hugh's, Oxford, where she broke glass ceilings.
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Edith Wardale was an early woman lecturer, and she was the first woman to serve on the medieval and modern languages and literature faculty board.
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Edith Wardale resigned in a successful protest concerning the dismissal of a fellow lecturer.
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Edith Wardale lived in the parish named Orcheston St Mary, where her father, John Wardale, was the rector.
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Edith Wardale initially entered Oxford University via Lady Margaret Hall but within a year she moved to St Hugh's Hall.
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Edith Wardale became the star-pupil of Joseph Wright who said she was the first woman to gain a "decent degree".
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Edith Wardale studied the phonology of a psalter created by the German scholar Notker Labeo and in 1892 the University of Zurich conferred a doctorate on her in recognition of this work.
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The Vice-Chancellor conducted an investigation with wide media attention and Edith Wardale had the difficult task of speaking out against the injustice on behalf of her colleagues.
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Edith Wardale was Oxford's first woman examiner in English in 1925.
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In 1936, to mark 50 years since St Hugh's College, Oxford was founded, a "Group Portrait" was painted of Evelyn Procter, Edith Wardale who was the English Language Tutor; Elizabeth Francis, the French Tutor; Barbara Gwyer, the then Principal; and Cecilia Ady the History Tutor by Henry Lamb.
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Edith Wardale wrote An Introduction to Middle English in 1937.