Material collected for an entry for Bertha Surtees Phillpotts in the Dictionary of National Biography (Supplement 1949): second file, 1946
Scope and Contents
The file consists of material MGLT compiled while researching BSP’s published work for the entry in the DNB Supplement. It includes:
manuscript notes made by MGLT ‘Works’ [listing BSP’s publications];
letter from R J L Kingsford to MGLT, 8 May 1946 (about BSP’s publications).
In addition there are a number of cuttings and offprints of BSP’s articles and papers including:
‘Ethics and morality (Teutonic)’ reprinted from ‘The Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics’ Volume V, edited by James Hastings [1912];
‘Purification (Teutonic)’, ‘Old Age (Teutonic)’, and ‘Dreams (Teutonic)’: three corrected proofs, almost certainly for the above publication;
‘Temple administration and chieftainship in pre-Christian Norway and Iceland’ reprint from the University of London 1914;
‘Germanic Heathenism’ reprint from ‘Cambridge Medieval History’ Volume II [1914];
‘On leaving university: careers for girls’. Cutting from the ‘Manchester Guardian’ 3 May 1923;
‘Some notes on the relation of personal representation to literature in the Viking Age’ a manuscript transcription made [by MGLT] of a paper given by BSP, Lent Term 1927 from ‘Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society’, Lent and Easter Terms 1927 (CUP 1928);
‘Anglo-Saxon borrowings from old Danish verse’ notice and summary of the paper by BSP given to the meeting of the Cambridge Philological Society, 22 November 1928 in the 'Cambridge University Reporter’ 27 December 1928;
‘Surt’ undated, unattributed offprint [by BSP in 'Arkiv for nordisk filologi' NF XVII 1905].
Dates
- Creation: 1946
Creator
- From the Fonds: Newall, Bertha Surtees, Dame, 1877 - 1932 (nee Phillpotts, Scandinavian scholar and educationalist) (Person)
Extent
1 file(s) : Paper
Language of Materials
English
Former / Other Reference
I 32-43
Originator(s)
Lloyd Thomas, Mary Gwyneth
Finding aid date
2004-02-11 13:08:50+00:00
Repository Details
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