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Chadwick, Nora Kershaw, 1891-1972 (literary scholar)

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Dates

  • Existence: 1891 - 1972

Biography

Nora Kershaw Chadwick (1891-1972) was born at Great Lever, near Bolton, Lancashire, on 28 January 1891. She attended Stoneycroft School near Southport, Lancashire, before entering Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1910. She was a temporary lecturer in English language and assistant lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews, 1914-1919. She married Hector Chadwick in 1922. In 1919 she began private research in Cambridge, where she was an Associate, 1923-1938, and Research Fellow, 1941-1944, at Newnham. Chadwick was university lecturer in the early history and culture of the British Isles, 1950-1958, and director of studies in Anglo-Saxon and Celtic subjects at Newnham, 1950-1959, and Girton, 1951-1962. She died in Cambridge on 24 April 1972.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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Hector and Nora Chadwick: Photographs and papers

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8195
Scope and Contents Correspondence, photographs of Hector and Nora Chadwick (some framed), newscuttings, and articles and other writing, including papers relating to the three volumes of the Chadwicks' The growth of literature (Cambridge University Press, 1932). The collection includes the volume A list of the published writings of Hector Munro Chadwick and of Nora Kershaw Chadwick presented to Nora Kershaw Chadwick on her eightieth birthday (1971), which contains a section on the H.M. Chadwick Centenary...
Dates: 1900-1950 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library
 Fonds

Nora Chadwick: letters to Jocelyn Hillgarth and his mother, Mary Hillgarth, 1960-63

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9672
Dates: 1960-1963
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library

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