Mary Madge Lascelles was a British literary scholar, specialising in Jane Austen, Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, and Walter Scott.
13 Facts About Mary Lascelles
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Mary Lascelles was vice-principal of Somerville College, Oxford, from 1947 to 1960, and a university lecturer then reader in English literature 1960 from to 1967 at the University of Oxford.
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Mary Lascelles learnt to read only at the age of eight, having previously been read to by her parents.
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In 1919 Mary Lascelles matriculated into Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, then an all-girls college of the University of Oxford, to study English.
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Mary Lascelles's tutor was Janet Spens and she attended lectures by Walter Raleigh.
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Mary Lascelles graduated with a first class Bachelor of Arts degree in 1922; women had been allowed to graduate with degrees from Oxford only since 1920.
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Mary Lascelles completed her Bachelor of Letters degree in 1926.
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Mary Lascelles then moved to Royal Holloway College, London, where she had been appointed assistant lecturer in 1936.
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In 1931, Mary Lascelles moved to Somerville College, Oxford, where she had been appointed a tutor in English Language and Literature.
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Mary Lascelles's early teaching requirements were focused on "literature from the Middle Ages to 1830".
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Mary Lascelles acted as secretary to the Home Guard unit based near her parents' home in Norfolk during the long vacations.
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Mary Lascelles would go on to publish three more books.
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Mary Lascelles died on 10 December 1995 in Cromer, Norfolk, England; she was aged 95.