Una Ellis-Fermor

Author, academic, literary critic
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IntroAuthor, academic, literary critic
PlacesUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
wasAuthor Literary critic Academic Critic
Work fieldEducation Literature
Gender
Female
Birth20 December 1894
Death24 March 1958 (aged 63 years)
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Biography

Una Mary Ellis-Fermor (20 December 1894 – 24 March 1958), who also used the pseudonym Christopher Turnley, was an English literary critic, author and Hildred Carlile Professor of English at Bedford College, London (1947–1958). In recognition of her services to London University, there is now an award in her name to provide assistance for research students in the publication of scholarly work, in the fields of English, Irish or Scandinavian drama to which Fermor-Ellis herself had been a notable contributor.

She has been described as "A major contributor to the study of the English Renaissance".

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